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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismanticoresearch.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmanual.manticoresearch.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperInterSystemsManticore SoftwareHughes TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20182017199420172017
Current release2023.3, June 20236.0, February 20234.4, October 20212.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesCan index from XMLnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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