Comparing the main Gartner Magic Quadrant ODBMS leaders

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Yuri Marx · Jan 12, 2021 3m read

Hi Community,

In this article I compared the features of the main leaders in the ODBMS gartner quadrant - 2019. See the list sorted by number of existent features.

InterSystems IRIS 2020.3 - 59 features (https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls)
Oracle Database 21c - 54 features (https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/index.html)
Microsoft SQL Server - 45 features (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/?view=sql-server-ver15)
AWS Aurora - PostgreSQL - 34 features (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora...)

I compared only features, any performance comparation (see ESG report for this). I used the product official documentation links above.

See the comparation table:

Features	InterSystems IRIS 2020.3	Oracle Database 21c	Microsoft SQL Server 2020	AWS Aurora - PostgreSQL
Failover Cluster	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mirroring/Data Replication	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Distributed Cache/In Memory support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Backup/Restore - Incremental and Full	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vertical Scaling	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Horizontal Scaling for Insert, Update and Delete	Yes	Yes	No	No
Horizontal Scaling for Select	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sharded Cluster	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Cloud Support and Cloud Manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kubernetes Support and Kubernetes Manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Docker support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
AWS Hosting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Azure Hosting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Google Cloud Hosting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Managed Cloud	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
On-premises support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Multimodel - OO	Yes	No	No	No
Multimodel - Document - JSON	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multimodel - XML	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multimodel - Key/Value	Yes	No	No	No
Multimodel - SQL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multimodel - Spatial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multimodel - Graph	No	Yes	Yes	No
Multimodel - OLAP Cubes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
GIS platform	No	Yes	No	No
Native OO programming language	Yes	Yes	No	No
Java, .Net, Python, C/C++ and PHP support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Node.js support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ODBC/JDBC support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Backend Application Development	Yes	Yes	No	No
Frontend Application Development	Yes	Yes	No	No
Low Code Web Application Development	No	Yes	Yes	No
Database Application Development	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OData support	No	Yes	Yes	No
REST Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SOAP Services	Yes	No	No	No
Terminal tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IDE Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web Admin/IDE Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Embedded NLP	Yes	No	No	No
Embedded AutoML	Yes	No	No	No
R/Machine Learning support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PMML	Yes	No	No	No
Business Report Server/Development	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Autonomous AI operation	No	Yes	No	No
Unstructured Text Annotations/Apache UIMA Like	Yes	Yes	No	No
Spark support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
BI tool	Yes	No	Yes	No
MDX Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Interoperability Connectors	Yes	No	No	No
BPEL/Integration Orchestration/Workflows	Yes	No	No	No
ETL - Extract, Transform and Load data	Yes	No	No	No
IoT/MQTT support	Yes	No	No	No
EDI support	Yes	No	No	No
ESB	Yes	No	No	No
CDC - Change Data Capture	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RBAC model	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LDAP support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Authorization/Authentication with two factor support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cryptography	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Labeling	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audit and trace	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SAM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multi OS support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SAML/Oauth/OpenID support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Performance Tunning IDE/Pack	No	Yes	No	No
Previleged User Access Management	No	Yes	No	No
API Management	Yes	No	No	No
Total of Features	59	54	45	34