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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store

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Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2005

2014

2003

2016

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

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.

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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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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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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