DBMS > Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

InterSystems

Microsoft

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

1997

2015

2010

2022

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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