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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

InterSystems

STS Soft SC

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1997

2011

2019

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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