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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.siridb.com
DeveloperInterSystemsMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Cesbit
Initial release1997200419842017
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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