DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.mysql.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

STS Soft SC

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1997

1995

2011

2018

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

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