InterSystems IRIS Features

Database Features (7)

Storage: This feature was mentioned in 31 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Availability: 31 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Stability: Based on 33 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Scalability: 32 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Security: Based on 32 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Data Manipulation: As reported in 31 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Query Language: As reported in 31 InterSystems IRIS reviews.

Data Management (10)

Data Integration: Consolidate data from various disparate sources in a single unified view
Data Discovery: Understand the state of data, applications, systems and services
Multi - Platform: Manage data across environments (on-premises cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud)
Metadata: Provides metadata management and lineage capabilities
Data Model: Stores data as key-value pairs where key is a unique identifier.
Data Types: Supports multiple data types like lists, sets, hashes (similar to map), sorted sets etc.
Data Model: Stores and queries data as JSON-like documents.
Data Types: Supports multiple data types like lists, sets, hashes (similar to map), sorted sets etc.
Built - In Search: Allows users to index at ingest and query endlessly across data.
Event Triggers: Notifies specific events like document inserts, updates, replaces, deletes etc and responds in real-time.

Analytics (1)

Security (16)

Compliance: Rules and regulations inherited from source systems or defined to secure sensitive data
Governance: Grant or restrict data access and control
Data Protection: Built - In Backup and Disaster Recovery
Data Encryption: As reported in 12 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Encrypts and transforms data at the database from a readable state into a ciphertext of unreadable characters.
User Access Control: Allows restricted user acess to modify depending on the access level. 14 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Database Locking: Prevents other users and applications from accessing data while it is being updated to avoid data loss or update. 15 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Access Control: Based on 18 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Allows permissions to be granted or revoked in the database, schema or table levels.
Encryption: Built-in native encryption with enterprise key management. This feature was mentioned in 18 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Authentication: Based on 18 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Provides multi-factor authentication with certificates.
Role-Based Authorization: Provides predefined system roles, privileges, and user-defined roles to users.
Authentication: Allows integration with external security mechanisms like Kerberos, LDAP authentication etc.
Encryption: Provides encryption capability for all the data at rest using encryption keys.
Role-Based Authorization: Provides predefined system roles, privileges, and user-defined roles to users.
Authentication: Allows integration with external security mechanisms like Kerberos, LDAP authentication etc.
Audit Logs: Provides an audit log to track access and operations performed on databases for regulatory compliance.
Encryption: Provides encryption capability for all the data at rest using encryption keys.

Maintenance (3)

Data Migration: Allows data movement from one database to another. This feature was mentioned in 14 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Backup and Recovery: Provides data backup and recovery functionality to protect and restore a database. 12 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Multi-User Environment: Allows users to access and work on data concurrently, supporting several views of the data. 13 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.

Management (5)

Data dictionary: As reported in 14 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Stores the database metadata, that is the definitions of data elements, types, relationships etc.
Data Replication: Creates a copy of the database to maintain consistency and integrity. This feature was mentioned in 13 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Query Language: As reported in 14 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database.
Data Modeling: Based on 13 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Defines the logical design of the data before building the schemas.
Performance Analysis: Monitors and analyzes critical database attributes like query performance, user sessions, dead lock detail, system errors etc and visualize them on a custom dashboard. This feature was mentioned in 13 InterSystems IRIS reviews.

Support (4)

Text Search: Provides support for international character sets and full text search. 18 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Data Types: Based on 20 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Supports multiple data types like primitive, structured, document etc.
Languages: As reported in 18 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Supports multiple procedural programming languages like PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python etc.
Operating Systems: Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc. This feature was mentioned in 18 InterSystems IRIS reviews.

Performance (6)

Disaster Recovery: Provides data recovery functionality to protect and restore data in a database. 17 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Data Concurrency: Based on 16 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Allows multi-version concurrency control.
Workload Management: Handles workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users. 17 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.
Advanced Indexing: As reported in 16 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Allows users to quickly retrieve data through various types of indexing like B-tree, hash table etc.
Query Optimizer: As reported in 16 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution.
Integrated Cache: Stores frequently-used data in system memory quickly.

Management (4)

Data Schema: Based on 18 InterSystems IRIS reviews. Data is organized as a set of tables with columns and rows like a table structure.
Query Language: Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database. This feature was mentioned in 17 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
ACID - Complaint: Adheres to ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), a set of database transaction properties. This feature was mentioned in 14 InterSystems IRIS reviews.
Data Replication: Provides log-based or/and trigger-based replication. 17 reviewers of InterSystems IRIS have provided feedback on this feature.

Availability (6)

Auto Sharding: Implements auto horizontal data partitioning that allows storing data on more than one node to scale out.
Auto Recovery: Restores a database to a correct (consistent) state in the event of a failure.
Data Replication: Copy data across multiple servers through master-slave, peer-to-peer replication architecture etc.
Auto Sharding: Implements auto horizontal data partitioning that allows storing data on more than one node to scale out.
Auto Recovery: Restores a database to a correct(consistent) state in the event of a failure.
Data Replication: Copy data across multiple servers through master-slave, peer-to-peer replication architecture etc.

Support (4)

Performance (1)

Generative AI (2)

Agentic AI - Data Fabric (5)

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Data Modeling

Data modeling is the process of creating visual representations of information systems to better communicate the connections between data points and structures. Learn more about data modeling in this G2 guide.

Data Manipulation

Data manipulation is changing data to a readable format. This G2 guide provides in-depth information about data manipulation, its types, benefits, and best practices.

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