DBMS > BoltDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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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 embedded key-value store for Go.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2013

1997

2013

2019

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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