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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. QuestDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. QuestDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachequestdb.iorockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comquestdb.io/­docsdocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperInterSystemsQuestDB Technology IncRocksetSAP infoformerly SybaseSTS Soft SC
Initial release19972014201919922011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202017, July 20154.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL with time-series extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Automatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
InterSystems CachéQuestDBRocksetSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSTSdb
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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