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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdoc.nuodb.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperInterSystemsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201820132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20091987
Current release2023.3, June 202310 R1, October 20183.2.0, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLuser defined functionsErlangyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID infoMVCCnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterSystems IRISNuoDBPostgres-XLRiak KVTransbase
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