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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. VoltDB vs. YottaDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 serverA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacherealm.iowww.voltdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comrealm.io/­docsdocs.voltdb.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperInterSystemsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019VoltDB Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release1997201420102001
Current release2018.1.4, May 202011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Docker
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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