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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1997

1984

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

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

HP Open VMS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes, on a single node

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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