DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

InterSystems

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

1997

2003

2015

2010

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.6.29, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.