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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 serverIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS GroupSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release1997200320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.6.27, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoMVCCDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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