DBMS > Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Google

InterSystems

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

1997

1984

2013

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users and groups

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