DBMS > DataFS vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	DataFS  Xexclude from comparison	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	InterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
			Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.	SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	A multi-model DBMS and application server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Graph DBMS		Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.09 Rank #360   Overall #17   Object oriented DBMS	Score 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS
Website	newdatabase.com	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	www.intersystems.com/­products/­cache	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	dev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsp		docs.intersystems.com
Developer	Mobiland AG	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.	InterSystems	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2018	2005	1997	1993
Current release	1.1.263, October 2022		2018.1.4, May 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C
Server operating systems	Windows	Linux Windows	AIX HP Open VMS HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)	yes	depending on used data model	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	.NET Client API Proprietary client DLL WinRT client	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C# C++ VB.Net	.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	C# C++ Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no	yes	yes
Triggers	no, except callback-events from server when changes happened	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Proprietary Sharding system	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Windows-Profile	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities	Access rights for users, groups and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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