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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

objectbox.io

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.teradata.com

Developer

InterSystems

ObjectBox Limited

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

1997

2017

2009

1984

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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