DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB vs. HEAVY.AI 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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.mcobject.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.heavy.ai

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

McObject

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

2013

2001

2016

1997

Current release

15585

8.2, 2021

5.10, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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