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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero vs. Trafodion

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachesphinxsearch.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comsphinxsearch.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperInterSystemsSphinx Technologies Inc.TmaxSoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1997200120032014
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.5.1, February 20236, April 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and AssemblerC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)Java Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infoplanned for next versionno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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