DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB 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

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.intersystems.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

InterSystems

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1997

2011

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

based on HBase

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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