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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. CouchDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb

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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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

couchdb.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

InterSystems

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2005

1997

1980

1984

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.3.3, December 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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