DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1997

2013

2014

2022

2016

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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