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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Sphinx

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irispostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsOxford Semantic TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2018200520172001
Current release2023.3, June 20233.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access typesno
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