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

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

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA multi-model DBMS and application serverAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityKey-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 relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.comdocs.opengemini.org/­guideterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsHuawei and openGemini communitySTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20021997202220112018
Current release4.02018.1.4, May 20201.1, July 20234.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
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
HTTP REST.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnoneJournaling Streams
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 rolesAdministrators and common users accountsnoRole-based access control

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