DBMS > Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.intersystems.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

InterSystems

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

Facebook, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1997

2004

2013

2000

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

depending on used data model

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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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