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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orgsqream.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperInterSystemsApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippSQream TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20182014200020172011
Current release2023.3, June 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242022.1.6, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomaincommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxWindows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyes infodynamic column typesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonono
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