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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 CPUsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsKineticaGoogleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1997201220112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 20211.23, February 202110 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++CC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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