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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias OetikerSybase, SAP
Initial release20182016200919991993
Current release2023.3, June 20232.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnoyes
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesnoyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterSystems IRISMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRethinkDBRRDtoolSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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