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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Stardog vs. Titan

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 scalabilitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irispostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.stardog.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clspostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.stardog.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperInterSystemsinformationpartners gmbhStardog-UnionAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182005201520102012
Current release2023.3, June 20233.4.2, February 20241.07.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes
Triggersyesyesnoyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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