DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

prometheus.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

InterSystems

Sybase, SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transwarp

Initial release

1997

2015

1993

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica 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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

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