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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. OpenQM

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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 cachingQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeMultivalue 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
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.memcached.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release201820031993
Current release2023.3, June 20231.6.25, March 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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