DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Tibero

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

IBM

InterSystems

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

1997

2009

2013

2003

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Erlang

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source 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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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