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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA multi-model DBMS and application serverMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpostgis.net
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.intersystems.commanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.InterSystemsManticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release20161997201719892005
Current release2.1, December 20182018.1.4, May 20206.0, February 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modeldepending on used data modelFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesCan index from XMLyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Java
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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