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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TerminusDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCognitectTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChris DavisInterSystemsDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122009200619972018
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.10.0, March 20222018.1.4, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaPythonProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCacheHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyesyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access control

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