DBMS > Blueflood vs. etcd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. etcd vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed reliable key-value store

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Rackspace

InterSystems

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1997

2014

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
C++
Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Journaling Streams

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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