DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MarkLogic vs. openGemini vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MarkLogic vs. openGemini vs. RocksDB

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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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.marklogic.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.intersystems.com

docs.marklogic.com

docs.opengemini.org/guide

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

MarkLogic Corp.

Huawei and openGemini community

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2019

1997

2001

2022

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

11.0, December 2022

1.1, July 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Administrators and common users accounts

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