DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL 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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

InterSystems

Alex Kashirin

Tencent

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

2013

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

0.5, April 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Based on Windows Authentication

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