DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pouchdb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1997

2021

2012

2014

1987

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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