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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

InterSystems

STS Soft SC

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2005

1997

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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