DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Solr vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Solr vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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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.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

solr.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.intersystems.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

InterSystems

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

1997

2006

2020

2012

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.6.1, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

simple authentication-based access control

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