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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase vs. Vitess

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissplicemachine.comswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsSplice MachineSimer PlahaTransaction Software GmbHThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20182014201819872013
Current release2023.3, June 20233.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavanoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsyesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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