DBMS > Dgraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. VelocityDB

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1997

2021

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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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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