DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trafodion 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.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

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

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

www.postgres-xl.org

trafodion.apache.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

InterSystems

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

1993

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.4-12

10 R1, October 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

MVCC

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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