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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 KubernetesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisnsdb.iowww.snowflake.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsSnowflake Computing Inc.Mireo
Initial release2018201720142020
Current release2023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
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