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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Widely used RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

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

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

galaxybase.com

boilerbay.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Boiler Bay Inc.

InterSystems

Oracle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2002

2018

1980

2019

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

4.0

2023.3, June 2023

23c, September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

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 and Java

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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