DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

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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.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

InterSystems

Sybase, SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1997

2017

1993

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Java
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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