DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Tibero

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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.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

docs.intersystems.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

InterSystems

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2016

1997

2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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