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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comsurrealdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsSTS Soft SCSurrealDB LtdVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1997201120222011
Current release2018.1.4, May 20204.0.8, September 2015v1.1.1, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#RustC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
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
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesBased on Windows Authentication

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