DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/google/leveldb

objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

InterSystems

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1997

2011

2017

2014

2022

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.23, February 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

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

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

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