DBMS > Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Tarantool vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Tarantool vs. Tibero

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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 multi-model DBMS and application server

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

www.tarantool.io

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

1997

2013

2008

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Open binary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

yes, write ahead logging

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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