DBMS > DataFS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Tkrzw vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Tkrzw vs. VelocityDB

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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

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.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Mobiland AG

InterSystems

Mikio Hirabayashi

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

2011

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

0.9.3, August 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

MVCC

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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