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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Typesense vs. YDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

typesense.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

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

typesense.org/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Alachisoft

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2008

2005

2015

2019

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

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++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

in Aster File Store

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

R packages

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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 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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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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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