DBMS > GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. TiDB

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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

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.nuodb.com

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

InterSystems

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2004

1997

1989

2013

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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