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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 solutionsOracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperInterSystemsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OracleApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19971984200720122013
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.9.10.12, February 202414.1, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurablenoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnosimple password-based access control

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