DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.intersystems.com

realm.io/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

InterSystems

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2002

1997

2014

2011

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.0

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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