DBMS > Dgraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

1997

2014

2016

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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