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DBMS > Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PouchDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA multi-model DBMS and application serverJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachepouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAltibaseDgraph Labs, Inc.EsgynInterSystemsApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992016201519972012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232018.1.4, May 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++, JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored ProceduresyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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