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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

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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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

informationpartners gmbh

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

1997

2015

2016

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

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

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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