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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. RavenDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. RavenDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 serverOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheravendb.netwww.mireo.com/­spacetimespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comravendb.net/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperInterSystemsHibernating RhinosMireoApache Software Foundation
Initial release1997201020202014
Current release2018.1.4, May 20205.4, July 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (RQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenono
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyesno

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