DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

geode.apache.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Chris Davis

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

2002

2006

1997

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

1.1, February 2017

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Unix

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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