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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transbase

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.memcached.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidoc.nuodb.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2018200320132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1987
Current release2023.3, June 20231.6.27, May 202410 R1, October 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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