DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

InterSystems

Circonus LLC.

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

2015

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
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

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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