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DBMS > Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comopentsdb.netrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCognitectInterSystemsKineticacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20121997201220112013
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 20218.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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