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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 serverIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSKey-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 DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperInterSystemsTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SC
Initial release19971999201420002011
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessWindows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes 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.yesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnononono

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