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Name

Description

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

postgis.net

splicemachine.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

postgis.net/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

InterSystems

Splice Machine

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2005

2014

1987

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.1, March 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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