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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. mSQL vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.25
Rank	#119	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#23	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#134	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#356	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

InterSystems

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2018

1994

2017

Current release

2021.1, June 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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