DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Netezza vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Netezza vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb vs. VelocityDB

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sequoiadb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

InterSystems

IBM

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

2000

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
macOS

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

proprietary protocol using JSON

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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