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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 multi-model DBMS and application serverAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
quasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.keydb.devdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperInterSystemsEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.quasardbSiteWhereTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19972019200920101987
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control and ACLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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