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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#357	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#112	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1182.79
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.intersystems.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2015

1997

1995

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.0.32, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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