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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application serverPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsHigh performance Time Series DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.jaguardb.comkx.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlcode.kx.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2014199720152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.3 July 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesqJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsno
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HeroicInterSystems CachéJaguarDBKdbLokiJS
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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