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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus vs. Sqrrl vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus vs. Sqrrl vs. Titan

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 H2Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbprometheus.iosqrrl.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clskairosdb.github.ioprometheus.io/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperInterSystemsAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182013201520122012
Current release2023.3, June 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoopyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access controlnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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