DBMS > Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Typesense

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

typesense.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.intersystems.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

1997

2021

1984

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

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

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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