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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Pinecone vs. Realm vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Pinecone vs. Realm vs. SwayDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.pinecone.iorealm.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsPinecone Systems, IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Simer Plaha
Initial release1997201920142018
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
Python.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesno

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