InterSystems IRIS System Properties

InterSystems IRIS is a complete “cloud-first” data platform which includes a multi-model transactional data management

engine, an application development platform, an interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform.

InterSystems IRIS transactional engine

At the core of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is a proven, enterprise-grade, distributed hybrid transactional/analytic

processing (HTAP) database. It can ingest and store transactional data at very high rates while simultaneously

processing high volumes of analytic workloads on real-time data (including ACID-compliant transactional data)

and non-real-time data.

InterSystems IRIS includes native multi-model persistence engine, which lets operate data via key-value, document, SQL,

or object API. The set of InterSystems IRIS API includes ODBC/JDBC, java, .NET, nodejs, python, call-in/call-out interfaces,

REST and web-sockets capabilities and more.

InterSystems IRIS provides horizontal scalability for high data volumes and demanding application workloads through a

flexible scalable architecture. For large data volumes, InterSystems' IRIS sharding capability allows horizontal partitioning

of database tables, spreading their data and associated workload across a tier of data nodes. For high user counts or

competing workloads, a tier of compute nodes can be added to the cluster to serve data at ultra-low latencies. 

All nodes are based on the same technology, providing a 100% homogeneous architecture and correspondingly lower

TCO than composite architectures with separate caching layer technologies as proposed by other vendors. 

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InterSystems IRIS Interoperability 

InterSystems IRIS provides a complete set of native integration and interoperability features. It provides out-of-the-box

connectivity and data transformations for a wide range of packaged applications, databases, industry standards, protocols,

and technologies. Flexible data transformation capabilities enable InterSystems IRIS to resolve differences in semantics and

data schemas that exist between applications or services.

Application developers can create seamless business processes that connect with internal and external data sources,

applications, and services. 

InterSystems IRIS provides graphical tooling to visually diagram processes, rules, and workflows, allowing developers

to focus on the logical interactions between systems, minimizing concerns about application interfaces, adapters,

or middleware mechanisms.

The embedded role-based workflow engine supports manual interactions in business processes, automating the distribution

of tasks among users and incorporating their decisions and actions. Learn more.

InterSystems IRIS Analytics capabilities

InterSystems IRIS also provides an Open Analytics Platform, built around its universal, high-performance data store and

offering data analysts, data scientists and data engineers an opportunity to run their analytic workflows in a straightforward,

coordinated and efficient fashion.

An Open Analytics Platform is one that allows partners and end-users to build solutions and services that leverage

best-of-breed analytics technologies, both embedded in the platform and complementary to it. It is not a point-and-click

solution, but a polyglot platform offering data services and interoperability with multiple, proven analytics technologies.

An Open Analytics Platform implies Data Integration, Data Preparation and Data Science capabilities, each of them

maximizing resource utilization vertically as well as horizontally.

InterSystems IRIS' embedded analytics capabilities include a high-performance multidimensional query engine for BI-style

analytics and a unique NLP technology for identifying concepts and their context in natural language text. Next to fast SQL

and xDBC drivers for access by third-party tools, it supports relevant standards and technologies including PMML, UIMA

and Apache Spark. Learn more.

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