DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

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)

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.leanxcale.com

rocksdb.org

www.teradata.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.teradata.com

Developer

InterSystems

LeanXcale

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Transwarp

Initial release

1997

2015

2013

1984

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

horizontal partitioning

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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