DBMS > Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name	Hyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison	InterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
	Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Serverless Time Series DBMS	A multi-model DBMS and application server	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store	Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart			Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS		Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	hyprcubd.com (offline)	www.intersystems.com/­products/­cache	www.postgres-xl.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation		docs.intersystems.com	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation		velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Hyprcubd, Inc.	InterSystems		Sybase, SAP	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release		1997	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1993	2011
Current release		2018.1.4, May 2020	10 R1, October 2018		7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Go		C		C#
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX HP Open VMS HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux macOS	Linux Windows	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	depending on used data model	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes time, int, uint, float, string	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	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	gRPC (https)	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	.Net
Supported programming languages		C# C++ Java	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	user defined functions	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	horizontal partitioning	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID MVCC	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	token access	Access rights for users, groups and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication
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	Hyprcubd	InterSystems Caché	Postgres-XL	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	VelocityDB
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