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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperInterSystemsGooglequasardbSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release19972011200920102017
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20213.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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