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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisobjectbox.iowww.sqlite.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippSQream Technologies
Initial release2018201720002017
Current release2023.3, June 20233.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesno
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