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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FeatureBase vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.featurebase.com

hsqldb.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.featurebase.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

InterSystems

Initial release

2015

2017

2001

2018

Current release

2022, May 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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