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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Memgraph vs. TerminusDB

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.71
Rank	#97	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

memgraph.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

memgraph.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

InterSystems

Memgraph Ltd

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2017

2018

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free and schema-optional

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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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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