DBMS > GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

terminusdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

InterSystems

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

1997

1994

2018

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2018.1.4, May 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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 journaling

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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