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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 serverAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kingbase.com.cnopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperInterSystemsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release1997199920142005
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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