DBMS > Datomic vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb 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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.intersystems.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

InterSystems

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

1997

2009

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

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

by using LevelDB

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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