DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.intersystems.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

InterSystems

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

1997

2015

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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