DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch vs. Stardog vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch vs. Stardog vs. TempoIQ

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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.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.stardog.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.stardog.com

Developer

InterSystems

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Stardog-Union

TempoIQ

Initial release

1997

2010

2021

2010

2012

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V12

2.5.0, January 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via event handlers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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