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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA multi-model DBMS and application serverA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司InterSystemsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2017199719842019
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212018.1.4, May 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMShosted
Data schemeStrong typed schemadepending on used data modelFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyes
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single node
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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