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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenEdge vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A multi-model DBMS and application serverApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.progress.com/­openedgeswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.intersystems.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperDataStaxInterSystemsProgress Software CorporationSimer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release20111997198420182020
Current release6.8, April 20202018.1.4, May 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers and groupsno
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Datastax EnterpriseInterSystems CachéOpenEdgeSwayDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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