DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Netezza vs. Oracle vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Netezza vs. Oracle vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

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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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Widely used RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

InterSystems

IBM

Oracle

Paradigma Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2000

1980

1999

2019

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

23c, September 2023

5.7.5

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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