DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

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

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

docs.intersystems.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

DataStax

InterSystems

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2011

1997

2015

2013

2006

Current release

6.8, April 2020

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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