DBMS > DuckDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Netezza vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Netezza vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle

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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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.intersystems.com

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

InterSystems

IBM

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle

Initial release

2018

1997

2000

1980

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.5, January 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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