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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.teradata.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alachisoft

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2008

1984

2018

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

hosted
Linux

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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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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