DBMS > Drizzle vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

SAP

Initial release

2008

1997

1995

2005

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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