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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.98
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.leanxcale.com

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

InterSystems

LeanXcale

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2018

2015

2004

1994

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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