DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus

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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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

www.monetdb.org

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.intersystems.com

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

1997

1991

2004

2015

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.7

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
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

optional

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

by Federation

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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 and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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