DBMS > Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle vs. STSdb

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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

Spatial extension of H2

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Widely used RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

InterSystems

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2013

1997

1980

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

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

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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