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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Realm vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Realm vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsrealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperInterSystemsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP, formerly SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2018201419941987
Current release2023.3, June 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyesyes
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterSystems IRISRealmSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTransbase
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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