DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. SAP HANA vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. SAP HANA vs. ToroDB

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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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

InterSystems

SAP

8Kdata

Initial release

1997

2010

2016

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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