DBMS > Immudb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

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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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	93.76
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.intersystems.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Codenotary

InterSystems

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2020

1997

1992

2010

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

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

SQL-like syntax

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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, groups and roles

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

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