DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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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

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2019

1997

2013

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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