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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperInterSystemsOxford Semantic TechnologiesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201520172008
Current release2023.3, June 202310 R1, October 20186.0, Septermber 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRoles, resources, and access typesno
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