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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 serverDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachequasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperInterSystemsquasardbAlessandro FurieriSimer Plaha
Initial release1997200920082018
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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