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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Linter vs. Qdrant vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Linter vs. Qdrant vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityRDBMS for high security requirementsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .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 DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irislinter.rugithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
terminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsqdrant.tech/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsrelex.ruQdrantDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20181990202120182011
Current release2023.3, June 202311.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++RustProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes
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 infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesno
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication
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