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DBMS > Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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 HadoopA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperHypertable Inc.InterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2009199720142003
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162018.1.4, May 20201.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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.yesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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