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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

postgis.net

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.intersystems.com

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

InterSystems

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1997

2005

2017

Current release

12.0, July 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

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