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DBMS > EXASOL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A multi-model DBMS and application serverA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.intersystems.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperExasolInterSystemsCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20001997201720132018
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, in LuaJava, SQLno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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