DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. XTDB

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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.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

InterSystems

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2005

2019

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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