DBMS > Fauna vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenMLDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenMLDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

openmldb.ai

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.intersystems.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

InterSystems

4 Paradigm Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1997

2020

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

2024-2 February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Java

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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