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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

InterSystems

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

1991

2013

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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