DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.kinetica.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

InterSystems

Kinetica

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1997

2012

2013

1994

1992

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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