DBMS > GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. Teradata Aster

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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.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Teradata

Initial release

2004

1997

2021

2005

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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