DBMS > InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ

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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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

InterSystems

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2002

1997

2014

1994

Current release

4.0

2018.1.4, May 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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