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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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 CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperInterSystemsKineticaRocket Software
Initial release1997201220171985
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringoptional
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
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 configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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