DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

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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.

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

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.scylladb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.scylladb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

InterSystems

Circonus LLC.

IBM

ScyllaDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1997

2017

2000

2015

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

yes, Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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