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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Netezza vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Netezza vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemaxdb.sap.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997IBMVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1997198420002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.9.10.12, February 202410 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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