DBMS > Apache Impala vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

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

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

1997

2013

2014

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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