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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsRisingWave LabsSnowflake Computing Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2018202220142018
Current release2023.3, June 20231.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageRustScala
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesno
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesUDFs in Python or Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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