DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. VelocityDB

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

InterSystems

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1994

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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