DBMS > FeatureBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2017

2018

1991

2013

2017

Current release

2022, May 2022

2023.3, June 2023

5.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data

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 queries

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple rights management via user accounts

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