DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

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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.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

machbase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

machbase.com/dbms

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

InterSystems

Machbase

Amazon Web Services

Mireo

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1997

2013

2021

2020

2009

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V8.0, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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