DBMS > Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PouchDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PouchDB vs. TimesTen

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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

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A multi-model DBMS and application server

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bangdb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

pouchdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.intersystems.com

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

InterSystems

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2012

1997

2012

1998

Current release

15585

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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