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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecachelot.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperElasticEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20152010198420172004
Current release8.6, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Luayes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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