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DBMS > InterSystems IRIS vs. mSQL vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. mSQL vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irishughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesAlex KashirinVK
Initial release2018199420202008
Current release2023.3, June 20234.4, October 20210.5, April 20212.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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