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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone vs. SAP IQ

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperInterSystemsPinecone Systems, IncSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release201820191994
Current release2023.3, June 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterSystems IRISPineconeSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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