DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.ehcache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

InterSystems

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2009

1997

1989

Current release

15585

3.10.0, March 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

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