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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A multi-model DBMS and application serverExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheobjectbox.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.InterSystemsObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2004199720172014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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