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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperFatCloudGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SpotifyApache Software FoundationInterSystems
Initial release20122004201420151997
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.62018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C, Java, PythonJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsWindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerStandard with numerous extensionsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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