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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PieCloudDB vs. Transbase

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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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.openpie.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

OpenPie

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

1997

1987

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.1, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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