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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisnsdb.iowww.postgres-xl.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsHibernating Rhinos
Initial release201820172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2010
Current release2023.3, June 202310 R1, October 20185.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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InterSystems IRISNSDbPostgres-XLRavenDB
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