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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alachisoft

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2005

2014

2013

2012

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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