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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché 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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2010

1997

2012

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

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

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

no

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