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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

InterSystems

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1997

1992

2003

1987

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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