DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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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 enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1997

1999

2017

2011

2013

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

V8.0, August 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java, Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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