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DBMS > Informix vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Informix vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS

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NameInformix  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.memcached.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.InterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19841997200320122015
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20202018.1.4, May 20201.6.27, May 20247.1.1, June 20193.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaCJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesnonono
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnono

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