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DBMS > Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Riak KV vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Riak KV vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperChris DavisInterSystemsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlessandro FurieriSQream Technologies
Initial release20061997200920082017
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.2.0, December 20225.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesErlangnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes, using Riak Securityno

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