DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RavenDB

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2012

2010

1997

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic 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 for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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