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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.leanxcale.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsLeanXcaleRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2018201519932014
Current release2023.3, June 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough Apache Derbynoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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InterSystems IRISLeanXcaleOpenQM infoalso called QMSnowflake
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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