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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.memcached.orgrocksdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalFacebook, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20022018200320132017
Current release4.02023.3, June 20231.6.25, March 20248.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno
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