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DBMS > Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperHypertable Inc.EmbarcaderoInterSystemsMicrosoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release20091984199719892020
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 2020SQL Server 2022, November 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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