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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP IQ vs. Stardog

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gbase.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.intersystems.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Softmotions

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

InterSystems

SAP, formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2004

1997

1994

2010

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2018.1.4, May 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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