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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsKineticaFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseWakanda SAS
Initial release19972012201319922012
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 20219.2.1, May 202417, July 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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