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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. QuestDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clskairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecturequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20182013199420172014
Current release2023.3, June 20231.2.2, November 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, ScalaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access controlno
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InterSystems IRISKairosDBmSQL infoMini SQLNSDbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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