DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

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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.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

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

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

milvus.io

rocksdb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1997

1991

2019

2013

2009

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.7

2.4.4, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Vector, Numeric and String

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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