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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA multi-model DBMS and application serverA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA 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 modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.intersystems.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftInterSystemsMonetDB BVByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2010199720042016
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CCC++
Server operating systems.NETAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityInterSystems CachéMonetDBTerarkDB
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