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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 serverA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsPerconaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2002199720152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release4.02018.1.4, May 20203.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
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
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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