DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SurrealDB

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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

Widely used RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1997

1980

2007

2022

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

23c, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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