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

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

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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

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

machbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yaacomo.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

machbase.com/dbms

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

InterSystems

Machbase

Mireo

Q2WEB GmbH

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1997

2013

2020

2009

2017

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V8.0, August 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

depending on used data model

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 query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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