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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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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.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1997

2013

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.2.2, November 2018

9.4.0, June 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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