DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Transwarp Hippo 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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

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

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

InterSystems

quasardb

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2023

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0, May 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

Vector, Numeric and String

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Based on Windows Authentication

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