DBMS > Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MariaDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MariaDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.intersystems.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

InterSystems

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

1997

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1984

2004

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

11.5.2, August 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

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

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

depending on used data model

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

RDF Schemas

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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