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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.32
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	6.74
Rank	#62	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#119	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#23	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#59	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.tech

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

clickhouse.tech/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Embarcadero

InterSystems

Initial release

2016

1984

2018

Current release

v22.3.3.44-lts, April 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2021.1, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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