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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsInterSystemsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20121997201419842019
Current release29.0.1, April 20242018.1.4, May 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP Open VMShosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supporteddepending on used data modelschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesString, Number, Boolean
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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