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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. Tibero vs. TinkerGraph

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineTmaxSoft
Initial release20182001201420032009
Current release2023.3, June 20233.5.1, February 20233.1, March 20216, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and AssemblerJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoJavaPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)no
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno infoplanned for next versionyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)no
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