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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A multi-model DBMS and application serverExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecachelot.iowww.gbase.cnwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.InterSystemsObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152004199720172001
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2018.1.4, May 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioGBaseInterSystems CachéObjectBoxSphinx
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