DBMS > AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

realm.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.intersystems.com

realm.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

InterSystems

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

1997

2014

2012

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

simple authentication-based access control

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