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DBMS > Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. LMDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  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 serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperActian CorporationInterSystemsGoogleSymas
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s199720112011
Current release11.2, May 20222018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20210.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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 persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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