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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesWidely used open source RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached API
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1087.72
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.mysql.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddev.mysql.com/­doc
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsGoogleOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release2002199720111995
Current release4.02018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20218.3.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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