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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RRDtool

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOracles in-memory data grid solutionIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriskx.comwww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clscode.kx.comdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKineticaOracleTobias Oetiker
Initial release20182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201220071999
Current release2023.3, June 20233.6, May 20187.1, August 202114.1, August 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC, C++JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMHP-UX
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.yesyesnonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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InterSystems IRISKdbKineticaOracle CoherenceRRDtool
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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