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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational 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	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

InterSystems

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2018

2014

2017

2020

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, Septermber 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Roles, resources, and access types

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