DBMS > Blueflood vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TempoIQ

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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.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

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

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

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

Developer

Rackspace

InterSystems

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

1997

2014

1984

2012

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

hosted

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

predefined scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate 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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple authentication-based access control

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