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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsKineticaByteDance, originally TerarkVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20182012201420162011
Current release2023.3, June 20237.1, August 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnonoBased on Windows Authentication
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