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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

InterSystems

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2017

1998

2010

2015

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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