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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

pouchdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

InterSystems

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Mireo

Initial release

1997

2012

2006

2020

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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