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DBMS > Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. Linter

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2RDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdblinter.ru
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperActian CorporationInterSystemsrelex.ru
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199720131990
Current release11.2, May 20222018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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