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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. JanusGraph vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox

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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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

janusgraph.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.janusgraph.org

kairosdb.github.io

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

InterSystems

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1997

2017

2013

2017

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.0.0, October 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

simple password-based access control

yes

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