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DBMS > BigObject vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA multi-model DBMS and application serverNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequasar.aisolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.intersystems.comdoc.nuodb.comdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.InterSystemsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardbApache Software Foundation
Initial release20151997201320092006
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 20249.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesJava, SQLnoJava plugins
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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