DBMS > Datomic vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch

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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.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A multi-model DBMS and application server

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.intersystems.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Cognitect

Embarcadero

InterSystems

Konrad von Backstrom

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

1984

1997

2018

2021

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

0.8, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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