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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid 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

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.92
Rank	#86	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

1997

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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, groups and roles

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