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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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 serverEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely 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
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacherocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperInterSystemsFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SC
Initial release1997201320002011
Current release2018.1.4, May 20209.4.0, June 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-lessWindows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonono

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