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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. KeyDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. KeyDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TypeDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.35
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#225  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.87
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#232  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#10  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.keydb.devhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheretypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.SAP infoformerly SybaseVaticle
Initial release2018201919922016
Current release2023.3, June 202317, July 20152.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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InterSystems IRISKeyDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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