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The most upvoted idea on the InterSystems Ideas Portal—garnering 74 votes—requests a lightweight version of IRIS. While the platform has grown into a powerful data engine, many projects require only its SQL database capabilities. This article demonstrates how to build an unofficial, compact IRIS Community Edition image focused solely on core database functionality, reducing the image size by over 80%.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This project produces an unofficial, experimental image of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition.

  • Not supported or endorsed by InterSystems.
  • Use at your own risk. The modifications remove core platform features and may break compatibility with tools, APIs, and expected behaviors.
  • No warranties or guarantees apply, including fitness for production use.
  • Intended only for educational and experimental purposes by advanced users.

Why a Lightweight IRIS?

While IRIS today includes rich functionality—interoperability, analytics, machine learning, system management, etc.—many projects only require its core SQL capabilities. The official Community Edition Docker image is approximately:

  • Disk usage: 3.5–3.8 GB
  • Compressed size: ~1.1 GB

IRIS Light reduces that to:

  • Disk usage: ~575–583 MB
  • Compressed size: ~144–148 MB

This makes it suitable for:

  • Microservice or containerized SQL use
  • CI pipelines with faster startup and pull
  • Horizontal scaling where full features are unnecessary

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Hi Community,

With the General Availability of the 2025.3 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health™, and HealthShare® Health Connect, we are now collecting your ideas for improvement.

If the new release inspired you or highlighted opportunities to enhance the developer experience, please share your suggestions on the InterSystems Ideas Portal - every idea is reviewed by our product teams and can influence future releases.

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Hello!
I have the following XML document obtained through a string:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<MainDocument xmlns="urn:hl7-org:v3">
<realmCode code="IT"/>
<title>kjbkjkjbkjb</title>
<effectiveTime value="20090905150716"/>
[.....other tags.....]
<versionNumber value="1"/>
<component>
<body>mhvjhjkvhj</body>
<component>
<section>content</section>
<ID>5</ID>

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FastJsonSchema: High-Performance JSON Validation in IRIS

Validating JSON data against JSON Schema is a common requirement for modern applications. FastJsonSchema brings this capability natively to InterSystems IRIS, combining speed, simplicity, and full schema compliance.

Unlike traditional validation approaches, FastJsonSchema generates native ObjectScript code from your JSON Schemas and compiles it directly to iris object code, enabling idiomatic performance without relying on external libraries or runtimes.

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In some cases, it's necessary to manipulate data from one namespace to another. For example, a routine in the "N1" namespace needs data from the "N2" namespace. In legacy systems (using only globals), it's common to make the global universal, but what about persistent classes? Is this type of globalization also possible?

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Hi Developers,

Following the resounding success of last year's new contest, we decided to repeat it. Please welcome

🏆 Bringing Ideas to Reality Contest 🏆

Submit an application that implements an idea from the InterSystems Ideas Portal that has status Community Opportunity or Future Consideration, created before the publication of this announcement, and requires doing the actual programming 😉

Duration: November 17 - December 7, 2025 December 14, 2025 (the submission period extended until December 7)

Prize pool: $12,000

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Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:

  • Developer Experience Idea implemented - 4
  • IRIS Vector Search usage -3
  • Embedded Python usage -3
  • InterSystems Interoperability - 3
  • InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
  • VSCode Plugin - 3
  • FHIR Tools - 3
  • Docker container usage -2
  • ZPM Package Deployment - 2
  • Online Demo -2
  • Find and report a bug - 2
  • Article on Developer Community - 2
  • The second article on Developer Community - 1
  • Video on YouTube - 3
  • YouTube Short - 1
  • First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.<--break->

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I am using IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2022.1 (Build 209) Tue May 31 2022 12:27:55 EDT [Health:3.5.0]. I created Interoperability Production with a Service to read file from S3 bucket and an Operation to write files to a different S3 bucket. I specified AWS ProviderCredentialsFile.

I see "Terminating Job 7096 / 'From S3 Bucket' with Status = ERROR #5023: Remote Gateway Error: Connection cannot be established, %QuitTask=

Do I need anything like Python libraries or AWS CLI to make this work?

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Hello InterSystems EHR community,

InterSystems Certification is currently developing a certification exam for InterSystems EHR integration specialists, and if you match the exam candidate description below, we would like you to beta test the exam! The exam will be available for beta testing starting November 10, 2025.

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In the previous article, we talked about ODBC and connecting from C#. And now, let's look at JDBC and Java. The InterSystems JDBC driver is the recommended, high-performance way to integrate your Java applications.

Here is a step-by-step guide to getting your Java application connected to an IRIS instance using the JDBC driver.

Step 1: Obtain and Include the InterSystems IRIS JDBC Driver

Unlike ODBC drivers, which are often installed system-wide, JDBC drivers are typically distributed as JAR files that must be included in your Java project's classpath.

If InterSystems IRIS is installed on your local machine or another you have access to, you can find the file in install-dir/dev/java/lib/ or similar, where install-dir is the installation directory for the instance. Conversely, you can download the jar file from Driver packages page.

Or as suggested by @Dmitry Maslennikov in the comments, use the maven central repository for Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.intersystems</groupId>
    <artifactId>intersystems-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>3.10.5</version>
</dependency>

or for Gradle:

implementation("com.intersystems:intersystems-jdbc:3.10.5")

Include the jar file in Project:

  • Maven/Gradle: If you use a build tool, the simplest method is to add the InterSystems JDBC driver as a dependency in your pom.xml or build.gradle file. This automatically downloads and manages the JAR.
  • Manual: For simple projects, you must place the JAR file in a project directory (e.g., /lib) and explicitly add it to your classpath when compiling and running.

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Hi Community!

Black Friday is here and this year, it’s all about discovering the best deals on Global Masters! Complete a short set of fun challenges, learn a few new things and collect extra points along the way.

From November 20 to November 30, join our Black Friday adventure: Find your deal on Global Masters.


🎯 During this period only:

  • All asks which have a black cover will award double points during this period
  • Inviting new Developer Community members through the Referral Program will also give 2× points when the invitee registers on DC.
  • Everyone who completes the Black Friday journey will enter the raffle for a special prize - Prixton 1080P Matisse Mini Projector! 🎁

Don’t miss your chance! The Black Friday hunt ends November 30.

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Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

Query Optimization in Hybrid Databases @ Ready 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_BNTGEsDt48
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Hello, Community:

📆 On February 19 you have a very special event at Espacio Covarrubias The One, in Madrid.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/EKM76z7cR9E
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Iberia InterSystems READY 2026 is coming. An opportunity to share knowledge about generative AI, real-time analytics, and meet powerful partners in the sector. We will have very special guests, lots of surprises, and details we will be revealing.

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Hey Developers,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube

Integrating AI Agents into InterSystems IRIS - Patterns and Techniques @ READY 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-oDn75NJ2c
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I am trying to add validation to a RecordMap, because the source of the data sent file sent us bad data within the file. So, I am using PATTERN to verify certain fields start with Numeric, and Alpha where applicable. When the EnsLib.RecordMap.Service.FTPService runs into an issue it doesn't seem like it continues onto the next record if the record does not meet the validation requirements.

How can I tell EnsLib.RecordMap.Service.FTPService to log the error and continue onto the next record, so those records that fail are not processed?

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The Interoperability user interface project has continued from 2025.1 and has incorporated many of the items that you – our customers and partners – have suggested and observed. We are continuing to invest in feedback and updating this important user experience. In the latest relea

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Hello Community,

Great news for developers who have just started working with InterSystems IRIS! We have hands‑on interactive tutorials available via the Instruqt platform! These are perfect for getting up to speed quickly, playing in real environments, and building confidence with IRIS‑based development.

Here is the list of available tutorials:

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Hey Developers,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube

Generative AI in InterSystems Data Studio @ READY 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OCGF-5kr4Xs
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