DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Tibero vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Tibero vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

TmaxSoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2018

2014

2020

2003

2012

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

6, April 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

yes

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