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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. mSQL

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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 serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsKineticaSymasHughes Technologies
Initial release1997201220111994
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 20210.9.32, January 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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