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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperRackspaceInterSystemsKineticaMicrosoft
Initial release2013201820122010
Current release2023.3, June 20237.1, August 2021V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemepredefined schemedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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