DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. TiDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. TiDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

pingcap.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

InterSystems

PingCAP, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2016

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

8.2.0, July 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
macOS

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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