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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Ingres vs. searchxml vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

Well established RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

cachelot.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sqrrl.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Actian Corporation

informationpartners gmbh

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2012

2016

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access rights for users and roles

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