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

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

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 scalabilitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA 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
Search engineVector DBMSWide column storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncAlex KashirinWakanda SAS
Initial release20182015201920202012
Current release2023.3, June 2023V10.5, April 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
PythonC++JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes 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 integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousing Azure authenticationyes
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InterSystems IRISMicrosoft Azure AI SearchPineconeSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseWakandaDB
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