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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. PieCloudDB vs. Solr vs. Vertica

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.openpie.comsolr.apache.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperInterSystemsOpenPieApache Software FoundationOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release201820062005
Current release2023.3, June 20232.1, January 20239.6.0, April 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJava pluginsyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
More information provided by the system vendor
InterSystems IRISPieCloudDBSolrVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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