DBMS > Bangdb vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL

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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

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Embarcadero

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

1984

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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