DBMS > Axibase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. RRDtool

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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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

InterSystems

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2013

1997

1989

2005

1999

Current release

15585

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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