DBMS > Datomic vs. Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.graphengine.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2010

1997

2013

2022

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

.NET and C

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

horizontal partitioning

none

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

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)

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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 rights for users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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