DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

InterSystems

Kinetica

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1997

2012

2010

2003

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

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

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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