DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. MariaDB vs. SingleStore vs. Stardog vs. TypeDB
System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. MariaDB vs. SingleStore vs. Stardog vs. TypeDB
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Name | InterSystems IRIS Xexclude from comparison | MariaDB Xexclude from comparison | SingleStore former name was MemSQL Xexclude from comparison | Stardog Xexclude from comparison | TypeDB formerly named Grakn Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability | MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL. | MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type | Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization | TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary database model | Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Graph DBMS RDF store | Graph DBMS Relational DBMS Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary database models | Document store Graph DBMS with OQGraph storage engine Spatial DBMS | Document store Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris | mariadb.com Site of MariaDB Corporation mariadb.org Site of MariaDB Foundation | www.singlestore.com | www.stardog.com | typedb.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technical documentation | docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls | mariadb.com/kb/en/library | docs.singlestore.com | docs.stardog.com | typedb.com/docs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer | InterSystems | MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise), MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL | SingleStore Inc. | Stardog-Union | Vaticle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Initial release | 2018 | 2009 Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995 | 2013 | 2010 | 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current release | 2023.3, June 2023 | 11.3.2, February 2024 | 8.5, January 2024 | 7.3.0, May 2020 | 2.26.3, January 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
License Commercial or Open Source | commercial | Open Source GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available | commercial free developer edition available | commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students | Open Source GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implementation language | C and C++ | C++, Go | Java | Java | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server operating systems | AIX Linux macOS Ubuntu Windows | FreeBSD Linux Solaris Windows ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows | Linux 64 bit version required | Linux macOS Windows | Linux OS X Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data scheme | depending on used data model | yes Dynamic columns are supported | yes | schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | yes | yes | yes | 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. | yes | yes | no | no Import/export of XML data possible | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary indexes | yes | yes | yes | yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SQL Support of SQL | yes | yes with proprietary extensions | yes but no triggers and foreign keys | Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APIs and other access methods | JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API | ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API | Cluster Management API as HTTP Rest and CLI HTTP API JDBC MongoDB API ODBC | GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3 | gRPC protocol TypeDB Console (shell) TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supported programming languages | .Net C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python | Ada C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl | Bash C C# Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python | .Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby | All JVM based languages Groovy Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Scala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server-side scripts Stored procedures | yes | yes PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3 | yes | user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Triggers | yes | yes | no | yes via event handlers | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding | Sharding hash partitioning | none | Sharding by using Cassandra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | Source-replica replication | Multi-source replication Source-replica replication | Source-replica replication stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes | Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster | Multi-source replication by using Cassandra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | no | no | no can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations | no | yes by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster | Immediate Consistency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign keys Referential integrity | yes | yes not for MyISAM storage engine | no | yes relationships in graphs | no substituted by the relationship feature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | ACID | ACID not for MyISAM storage engine | ACID | ACID | ACID | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes not for in-memory storage engine | yes All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log. | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | yes with MEMORY storage engine | yes | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
User concepts Access control | yes | fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard | Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles | Access rights for users and roles | yes at REST API level; other APIs in progress | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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InterSystems IRIS | MariaDB | SingleStore former name was MemSQL | Stardog | TypeDB formerly named Grakn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specific characteristics | InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model... » more | MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON... » more | SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed... » more | TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competitive advantages | MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases.... » more | SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with... » more | TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typical application scenarios | Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability... » more | Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting... » more | Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Market metrics | MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,... » more | Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing and pricing models | MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,... » more | F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition » more | Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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