DBMS > CrateDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

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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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

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

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

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

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Crate

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Initial release

2013

1997

2013

1992

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

depending on used data model

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, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

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

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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