DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Stardog vs. Tibero vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Stardog vs. Tibero 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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.stardog.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.intersystems.com

docs.stardog.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

InterSystems

Stardog-Union

TmaxSoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1997

2010

2003

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.3.0, May 2020

6, April 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Based on Windows Authentication

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