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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

velocitydb.com

www.vertica.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alachisoft

VelocityDB Inc

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2005

2011

2005

2009

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

7.x

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.Net

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

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 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)

Based on Windows Authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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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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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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