DBMS > Citus vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp KunDB

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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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A multi-model DBMS and application server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.intersystems.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

InterSystems

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

1997

2010

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Appliance or cloud-service

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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