DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché

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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 fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Cloud-based data warehousing service

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2016

2014

2005

1997

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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