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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comignite.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectApache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoInterSystems
Initial release20132012201519841997
Current release155851.0.6735, June 2023Apache Ignite 2.6InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++, Java, .NetC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes (replicated cache)Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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