DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. SurrealDB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

InterSystems

Microsoft

IBM

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1997

1989

2000

2022

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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