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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. mSQL vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irishughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2018199420182019
Current release11.2, May 20222023.3, June 20234.4, October 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCScalaClojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono
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IngresInterSystems IRISmSQL infoMini SQLSwayDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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