DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. TypeDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. TypeDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.mysql.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

typedb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

opensearch.org/docs/latest

typedb.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Amazon Web Services

Vaticle

Rocket Software

Initial release

1997

1995

2021

2016

1985

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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