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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. openGauss vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

Hughes Technologies

Huawei and openGauss community

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

1994

2019

2013

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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