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DBMS > Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhereterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperRackspaceInterSystemsSAP infoformerly SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132018201419922018
Current release2023.3, June 202317, July 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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BluefloodInterSystems IRISLokiJSSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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