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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. Stardog

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 serverA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iowww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperInterSystemsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)OracleQuestDB Technology IncStardog-Union
Initial release19971991200720142010
Current release2018.1.4, May 20205.714.1, August 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL with time-series extensionsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesyes infoLive Eventsnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
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InterSystems CachéjBASEOracle CoherenceQuestDBStardog
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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