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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

en.gstore.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

1997

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic 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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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