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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 serverSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachepostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.compostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperInterSystemsinformationpartners gmbhSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release19972005201520132017
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.4.2, February 20241.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesyesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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