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DBMS > H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

InterSystems

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2005

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

yes

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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