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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Solr

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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 servermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpostgis.netsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.compostgis.net/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release1997199420052006
Current release2018.1.4, May 20204.4, October 20213.4.2, February 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes

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