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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#331	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	2.83
Rank	#111	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	8.34
Rank	#53	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.intersystems.com

realm.io/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

InterSystems

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

1997

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
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

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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