DBMS > atoti vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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)

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

ActiveViam

Cognitect

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

1997

2013

2018

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

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