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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 serverA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrealm.iosqream.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsdocs.sqream.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperInterSystemsOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SQream TechnologiesVoltDB Inc.
Initial release19972011201420172010
Current release2018.1.4, May 202023.3, December 20232022.1.6, December 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemedepending on used data modelSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functions in PythonJava
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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