DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Microsoft

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

1997

2013

1992

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

hosted

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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