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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationInterSystemsFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20121997201420131992
Current release1.20.3, January 20232018.1.4, May 20209.2.1, May 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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