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DBMS > Drizzle vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A multi-model DBMS and application serverTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerInterSystemsOpenNMS GroupquasardbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20081997201420092018
Current release7.2.4, September 20122018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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