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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. MySQL vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.mysql.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

dev.mysql.com/doc

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

1995

2021

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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