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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone vs. Titan

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSGraph DBMS
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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
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperInterSystemsPinecone Systems, IncAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release201820192012
Current release2023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graph
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 infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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