DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dolphindb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DolphinDB, Inc

InterSystems

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2018

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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