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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperInterSystemsMonetDB BVAurelius, owned by DataStaxTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19972014200420121987
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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