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DBMS > Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sadasengine.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperActian CorporationInterSystemsCirconus LLC.SADAS s.r.l.Simer Plaha
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1997201720062018
Current release11.2, May 20222018.1.4, May 2020V0.10.20, January 20188.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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