DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

1997

1991

2013

2010

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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