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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA multi-model DBMS and application serverA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司InterSystemsCirconus LLC.Google
Initial release2017199720172014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212018.1.4, May 2020V0.10.20, January 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeStrong typed schemadepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyesyes, in Luano
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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