DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

orientdb.org

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.intersystems.com

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

McObject

InterSystems

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2001

1997

1989

2010

Current release

8.2, 2021

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

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++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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; record level security configurable

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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