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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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 serverA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.leanxcale.commaxdb.sap.comrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperInterSystemsLeanXcaleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Facebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release19972015198420131992
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.9.10.12, February 20248.11.4, April 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough Apache Derbyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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