DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2015

2013

1992

1998

2018

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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