DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

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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

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Amazon

InterSystems

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2017

1997

2007

2015

2021

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.7

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Database file passwords

yes

using Azure authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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