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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.splunk.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Splunk Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1997

1991

2003

2010

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.7

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

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

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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