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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.64
Rank	#232	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.intersystems.com

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

Developer

Microsoft

InterSystems

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2010

1997

1994

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

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

Server operating systems

.NET

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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 rights for users, groups and roles

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