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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.leanxcale.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

InterSystems

LeanXcale

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2015

2013

1992

2000

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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