NCache vs Pivotal GemFire - A Detailed Feature Comparison

This document compares NCache with Pivotal GemFire and contrasts their significant differences. This comparison focuses on all the major areas that a good in-memory distributed cache should provide. For a detailed comparison, please read the PDF.

Partial = Partial Support
Yes = Full Support
No = No Support
Verify = Please Verify Yourself
Coming = Coming Soon

Feature

Pivotal GemFire

NCache

.NET Platform Support

- .NET Cache Client

Yes

- .NET Core Cache Client

Yes

- .NET NuGet Packages

Yes

- .NET Cache Server

Yes

- .NET Core Cache Server

Coming

- .NET Server-Side Code

Yes

- .NET Core Server-Side Code

Coming

ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core Support See Details

- ASP.NET Core Session Persistence (basic)

Yes

- ASP.NET Core Session Persistence (advanced)

Yes

- ASP.NET Core Sessions (Multiple-site)

Yes

- ASP.NET Session State Caching (basic)

Yes

- ASP.NET Session State Caching (advanced)

Yes

- ASP.NET Sessions State (Multiple-site)

Yes

- ASP.NET View State Cache

Yes

- ASP.NET Output Cache

Yes

Performance and Scalability See Details

- Cache Performance

Verify

Super Fast

- Cache Scalability

Verify

Extremely Scalable

- Bulk Operations

Yes

- Async Operations

Yes

- Compression

Yes

- Fast Compact Serialization

Yes

- Indexes

Yes

- Multiple NIC Binding

Yes

Cache Elasticity (High Availability) See Details

- Dynamic Cache Cluster

Yes

- Peer to Peer Architecture

Yes

- Connection Failover

Yes

- Dynamic Configuration

Yes

- Multiple Clusters

Yes

- Named Caches

Yes

- Cluster Specific Events

Yes

- Split Brain Detection

Yes

- Split Brain Auto Recovery

Yes

Cache Topologies See Details

- Local Cache

Yes

- Client Cache (Near Cache)

Yes

- Mirrored Cache

Yes

- Replicated Cache

Yes

- Partitioned Cache

Yes

- Partitioned-Replica Cache

Yes

- Partitioned Data Balancing

Yes

- Load Balancing

Yes

- Partitioned Data Affinity

- Persistence

Yes

WAN Replication See Details

- Active - Passive

Yes

- Active - Active

Yes

- Conflict Resolution

Yes

- De-duplication

Yes

- Data Security

Yes

Object Caching Features See Details

- Get, Add, Insert, Remove, Exists, Clear Cache

Yes

- Expirations

Yes

- Lock & Unlock

Yes

- Streaming API

Yes

- Transactions

Yes

Partial

- Data Portability

Yes

- Item Versioning

Yes

- Multiple Object Versions

Yes

Managing Data Relationships See Details

- Key Based Dependency

Yes

- Multi-Cache Key Dependency

Yes

Cache Synchronization with Database See Details

- SQL Dependency (SQL Server)

Yes

- Oracle Dependency (Oracle)

Yes

- Db Dependency (OLEDB)

Yes

- File Based Dependency

Yes

- Custom Dependency (Any Source)

Yes

Event Driven Data Sharing See Details

- Item Level Events (onInsert / onRemove)

Yes

- Cache Level Events (Add/Insert/Remove)

Yes

- Custom Events (Fired by Apps)

Yes

- Continuous Query

Yes

- Topic (for Pub/Sub Messaging)

Yes

Search Cache (SQL-Like) See Details

- SQL Search

Yes

- LINQ Queries

Yes

- SQL on Tags, Named Tags & Groups

Yes

Data Grouping See Details

- Groups/Subgroups

Yes

- Tags

Yes

- Named Tags

Yes

Read-through, Write-through & Cache Loader See Details

- Read-through

Yes

- Write-through & Write-behind

Yes

- Auto Reload at Expiration & Database Synchronization

Yes

- Cache Startup Loader

Yes

Big Data Processing See Details

- Map-Reduce Query

Yes

- Aggregators

Yes

- Entry Processor

Yes

Third Party Integrations See Details

- NHibernate 2nd Level Cache

Yes

- Entity Framework Core Cache (Extension Methods)

Yes

- Entity Framework Cache

Yes

- Memcached Protocol Server

Yes

- Memcached Smart Wrapper

Yes

Security & Encryption See Details

- Authentication (Active Directory/LDAP)

Yes

- Authorization

Yes

- Data Encryption

Yes

- Secure Communication

Yes

Cache Size Management (Evictions Policies) See Details

- Max Cache Size (in MBs)

Yes

- LRU Evictions (Least Recently Used)

Yes

- LFU Evictions (Least Frequently Used)

Yes

- Priority Evictions

Yes

- Do Not Evict Option

Yes

Cache Administration See Details

- Cache Admin (GUI Tool)

Yes

- Monitoring Tool (GUI Tool)

Yes

- Windows PerfMon Counters

Yes

- Admin Tools (Windows PowerShell)

Yes

- Admin Tools (Command Line)

Yes

- Administration and Monitoring API

Yes

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