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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachensdb.ioopentsdb.netrocksdb.org
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.comnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20021997201720112013
Current release4.02018.1.4, May 20209.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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