DBMS > Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. RocksDB

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A multi-model DBMS and application server

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.kingbase.com.cn

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

InterSystems

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

1997

1999

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V8.0, August 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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