DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA multi-model DBMS and application serverTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comhazelcast.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemachbase.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.intersystems.commachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEnterpriseDBHazelcastInterSystemsMachbase
Initial release20082005200819972013
Current release7.2.4, September 201214, December 20215.3.6, November 20232018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++CJavaC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
DrizzleEDB PostgresHazelcastInterSystems CachéMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux
DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL won the April ranking; did its forks follow?
1 April 2015, Paul Andlinger

Has MySQL finally lost its mojo?
1 July 2013, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

EDB unveils EDB Postgres AI
23 May 2024, InfoWorld

EDB Puts Postgres in the Middle of Analytics Workflow with New Lakehouse Stack
22 April 2024, Datanami

EDB Announces EDB Postgres® AI, an Intelligent Platform for Transactional, Analytical and AI Workloads
23 May 2024, GlobeNewswire

Nutanix partners with EDB to fit database service for AI – Blocks and Files
21 May 2024, Blocks & Files

EDB Is Developing Its Flagship Database Into A Comprehensive Platform For Analytics, AI
27 February 2024, CRN

provided by Google News

Hazelcast Weaves Wider Logic Threads Through The Data Fabric
7 March 2024, Forbes

Hazelcast 5.4 real time data processing platform boosts AI and consistency
17 April 2024, VentureBeat

Hazelcast Showcases Real-Time Data Platform at 2024 Gartner Summit
15 May 2024, Datanami

Real-Time Data Platform Hazelcast Introduces New Chief Technology Officer Adrian Soars
7 November 2023, Finovate

Hazelcast Versus Redis: A Practical Comparison
4 January 2024, Database Trends and Applications

provided by Google News

Defense Health Agency Awards Four Points Technology $39 Million for Intersystems Software Licenses and Maintenance
21 September 2023, ClearanceJobs

AWS, GCP, Oracle, Azure, SAP Lead Cloud DBMS Market: Gartner
12 February 2022, CRN

Announcing IBM Spectrum Sentinel: Building a Cyber Resilient Future
24 June 2022, IBM

Associative Data Modeling Demystified - Part1 - DataScienceCentral.com
9 July 2016, Data Science Central

Choosing a Database Technology. A roadmap and process overview | by Shirish Joshi
23 February 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here