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DBMS > Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperServerless Time Series DBMSA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhyprcubd.com (offline)www.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris DavisHyprcubd, Inc.InterSystems
Initial release2012200820061997
Current release1.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 20122018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++PythonGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnononoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnotoken accessAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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