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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RDFox

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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 in-process key-value store

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#314	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

1997

1994

2017

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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