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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineWide column storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series 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
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftMicrosoftAlex KashirinWakanda SAS
Initial release20181992201520202012
Current release2023.3, June 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V10.5, April 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
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 integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authenticationyes
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