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

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSterminusdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20141997201520142018
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.3 July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsnoRole-based access control

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