DBMS > FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

manticoresearch.com

www.postgres-xl.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

FatCloud

InterSystems

Manticore Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1997

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

6.0, February 2023

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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