DBMS > Databend vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.mysql.com

ravendb.net

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

ravendb.net/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Databend Labs

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Hibernating Rhinos

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2021

2018

1995

2010

2013

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

2023.3, June 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

simple password-based access control

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