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DBMS > Heroic vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SpatiaLite

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSpotifyActian CorporationInterSystemsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19972008
Current release11.2, May 20222018.1.4, May 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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