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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.82
Rank#91  Overall
#15  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#383  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperInterSystemsOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release2018201420052009
Current release2023.3, June 20233.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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