DBMS > InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. Realm

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.oushu.com/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

InterSystems

Microsoft

Oushu

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2013

1997

1989

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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 query language

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

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