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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LMDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime 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
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbsql.js.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.lmdb.tech/­docsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsSymasAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAlex Kashirin
Initial release2018201120122020
Current release2023.3, June 20230.9.32, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono
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InterSystems IRISLMDBSQL.JSSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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