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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

maxdb.sap.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

InterSystems

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1997

1984

2015

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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