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

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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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Chris Davis

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2006

1997

2013

2018

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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