Boost .NET App Performance & Scalability
Remove performance bottlenecks and scale up to extremely high transactions with NCache. NCache provides you multiple powerful mechanisms for boosting your .NET application performance and scalability. NCache Express is free to use and is not a trial version.
Distributed In-Memory Object Cache
Distributed cache, the core engine of NCache, is extremely fast and scalable. Cache both static and transactional application data and reduce expensive database trips. NCache synchronizes cache updates across multiple servers.
- 100% cache uptime thru replication, failover recovery, and dynamic cache clustering
- Scale up with Mirrored, Replicated, Partitioned, and Client Cache topologies (Enterprise Edition)
- Software appliance for Caching Application Block
- Software appliance for NHibernate
EntLib Caching Block Integration
NCache Express provides the following benefits to Caching Block:
- OutProc cache for web gardens and other multi-process environments
- Distributed in-memory cache for multi-server environments
Distributed ASP.NET Session State Cache
Built on the distributed caching core, this module provides an extremely scalable ASP.NET Session State storage for apps running in a server farm with a load balancer
- Highly reliable thru session replication
- Software appliance (No code change required)
NCache Express Feature Limitations
NCache Express is a FREE but limited feature edition of NCache. If you use NCache Express, you always have the option of upgrading to NCache Enterprise in a seamless manner. Here are the limitations:
- For 2 server environments
- Cache clients either local or from the second cache server
- Replicated Cache topology (no Mirrored, Partitioned, Partition-Replica, or Client Cache)
- Max Cache Size: Unlimited
- Distributed ASP.NET Session State Cache support (.NET 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5)
- No support for Distributed ASP.NET Output Cache
- 32-bit only (no 64-bit version)
- .NET 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5 clients supported
You can view a more detailed edition comparison between Express and Enterprise Editions of NCache.