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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenEdge vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 systemAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.progress.com/­openedgeswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperInterSystemsProgress Software CorporationSimer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release2018198420182020
Current release2023.3, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers and groupsno
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InterSystems IRISOpenEdgeSwayDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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