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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan vs. WakandaDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 scalabilitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irispostgis.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clspostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsAlex KashirinAurelius, owned by DataStaxWakanda SAS
Initial release20182005202020122012
Current release2023.3, June 20233.4.2, February 20240.5, April 20212.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backendsnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes
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