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

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 systemDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperInterSystemsinformationpartners gmbhAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201520152008
Current release2023.3, June 202310 R1, October 20181.05.0.0, 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
Windowsserver-less
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
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 possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
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
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
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++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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