DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Social network pages

Developer

InterSystems

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1997

2017

2013

1992

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free and schema-optional

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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