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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alachisoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2005

2009

2010

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

TinkerPop 3

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Groovy
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Java

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, using Riak Security

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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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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