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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

InterSystems

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2002

2018

2014

1994

Current release

4.0

2023.3, June 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

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

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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