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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 serverA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release199720122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20012011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesnoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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