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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score41.32
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clshelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsSAPSnowflake Computing Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2018201020142020
Current release2023.3, June 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Appliance or cloud-servicehostedLinux
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 dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesSQLScript, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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