DBMS > Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Cognitect

CCRi and others

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2012

2014

1997

2013

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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