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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InterSystems Caché vs. searchxml

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

InterSystems

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2008

1997

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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