DBMS > BaseX vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SQream DB 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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

sqream.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.intersystems.com

docs.sqream.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

InterSystems

SQream Technologies

Oracle

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

Initial release

2007

1997

2017

1998

Current release

11.2, August 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2022.1.6, December 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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