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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/jsqldb.org (offline)quasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperInterSystemsCirconus LLC.Konrad von BackstromquasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20182017201820092014
Current release2023.3, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20180.8, December 20183.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luafunctions in JavaScriptnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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