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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.progress.com/­openedgepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperInterSystemsProgress Software CorporationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2018198420052015
Current release2023.3, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLno
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