DBMS > Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

hsqldb.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

Google

Initial release

2008

2007

2001

1997

2011

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

2.7.2, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes (replicated cache)

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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