DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Infobright vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Infobright vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2005

2017

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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