DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.teradata.com

Developer

InterSystems

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

LeanXcale

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1997

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2013

1984

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.6, May 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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