What is NCache?
NCache is an open source distributed cache for .NET & .NET Core (Apache 2.0) by Alachisoft.
NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips.
NCache is a tool in the In-Memory Databases category of a tech stack.
Who uses NCache?
Companies
Developers
42 developers on StackShare have stated that they use NCache.
NCache's Features
- Recovery from Split-Brain
- ASP.NET Core Response Caching
- .NET Core
- Virtualization and Containerization
- Performance & Scalability
- Cache Elasticity (High Availability)
- Cache Topologies
- WAN Replication
- Cache Administration
- Security & Encryption
- Object Caching Features
- Managing Data Relationships
- Synchronization with Data Sources
- Runtime Data Sharing
- Search Cache (SQL-Like)
- Data Grouping
- Read-through & Write-through
- Cache Size Management
- ASP.NET Support
- Third Party Integrations
NCache Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to NCache?
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Memcached
Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.
Hazelcast
With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.
Couchbase
Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible SQL databases, the Couchbase NoSQL database is built on an open source foundation and architected to help developers solve real-world problems and meet high scalability demands.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
