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

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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  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 DBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comdgraph.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachepouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAltibaseDgraph Labs, Inc.InterSystemsApache Software Foundation
Initial release1999201619972012
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 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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