DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. KeyDB vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. KeyDB vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

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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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.keydb.dev

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

InterSystems

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SiteWhere

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

2019

2010

2011

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Based on Windows Authentication

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