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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

quasar.ai

sql.js.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

InterSystems

quasardb

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1997

2009

2012

2018

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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