DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTenBase vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTenBase vs. RDF4J

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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.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

InterSystems

Circonus LLC.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1997

2017

2004

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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