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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#vitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20021997201120182013
Current release4.02018.1.4, May 20204.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
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
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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