DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tarantool

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

InterSystems

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1997

2015

2013

1992

2008

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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