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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. QuestDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 columnsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.monetdb.orgwww.openpie.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsMonetDB BVOpenPieQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release199720042014
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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InterSystems CachéMonetDBPieCloudDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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