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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. Teradata vs. TiDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
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Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheobjectbox.ioprometheus.iowww.teradata.compingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docsdocs.teradata.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedTeradataPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release19972017201519842016
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20198.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoHashinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infoby FederationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
InterSystems CachéObjectBoxPrometheusTeradataTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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