DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

InterSystems

Initial release

2010

2014

1997

2023

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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