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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgsiridb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperInterSystemsCesbitMireo
Initial release19972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20172020
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
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 APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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 integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes

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