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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

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

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2018

2014

2013

2020

2009

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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