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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. eXtremeDB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
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	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.mcobject.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

McObject

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

Current release

8.2, 2021

11.2, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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