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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. KeyDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. 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 simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
splicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comdocs.keydb.devsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperInterSystemsCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Splice Machine
Initial release201820172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192014
Current release2023.3, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++qC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luauser defined functionsLuayes infoJava
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnorights management via user accountssimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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InterSystems IRISIRONdbKdbKeyDBSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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