DBMS > Axibase vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

ignite.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

InterSystems

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2013

2015

1997

1989

2010

Current release

15585

Apache Ignite 2.6

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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