DBMS > GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

InterSystems

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Initial release

2004

1997

2011

1980

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2018.1.4, May 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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