DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MySQL vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MySQL vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used open source RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	2.98
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.mysql.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Mireo

Initial release

2019

2018

1995

2020

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 and roles

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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