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DBMS > DataFS vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Elasticsearch vs. Geode vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Websitenewdatabase.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgeode.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperMobiland AGElasticOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.InterSystems
Initial release2018201020021997
Current release1.1.263, October 20228.6, January 20231.1, February 20172018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsWindowsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-ProfileAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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