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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. SQL.JS vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissql.js.orgtempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperInterSystemsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2018201220122018
Current release2023.3, June 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnosimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control
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InterSystems IRISSQL.JSTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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