DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

InterSystems

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1997

1994

2013

2006

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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