Amazon DynamoDB vs InterSystems IRIS

Likelihood to Recommend

It is ideal for those projects where you need to store a large amount of data, but you do not know how many will be so you need the database to increase its storage capacity together with the number of users, without having to spend extra money, it also has a great potential thanks to the fast connection it offers, so the data travels at high speed, and this speeds up the performance of the applications, excellent for projects where non-relational databases are used and what matters is to store large quantities of information and use them at high speed.

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Winston Mendes

Software Developer

Globalsoft SolutionsComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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IRIS, and that comes from the time of Caché, works very well with hospitals, medical data, which need agility and an immediate response for access. Of course, it is not limited to the medical area, and works well with any area, however, the biggest highlight is in the hospital area.

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Gabriel Tureck

System Analyst

BPlusInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon DynamoDB

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Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Amazon DynamoDB

InterSystems IRIS

Version control tools

Test data generation

Performance optimization tools

Schema maintenance

Database change management

Amazon DynamoDB

InterSystems IRIS

User management

Database security

Database status reporting

Change management

Pros

It's very easy to get started, creating a table with a partition/sort key and you're on your way.
You can scale up and down your read/write IO as needed.
You can store structured and unstructured data.
It works great with Web Development as it's JSON based.

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Bob Smith

Founder, Owner

CodeLinguists LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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The database, which is one of the best in the market, with tools available for creating BI and API.
A redesign of the portal's administration screens and making some dark themes available to the studio.
With this platform is relatively easy to manage and deploy.

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Josnei André Tschoeke

Fullstack Developer

Coden3Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Complex searching (no support for case-insensitive or full-text search).
Only supports up to two-key indexes.
Requires choosing the indexes up-front when doing searches.
Does not have an SQL compatible query front-end.
No join-table support (requires putting all data into one table).

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Chris Moyer

VP of Technology

NewstexComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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If you need a quick install and deployment, needs docker, and this tech is not available in all customers.
The only thing is that the documentation is a little bit weak but you have the Intersystems Community to get questions answered
They could improve the usability of the administration portal

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Vinicius Silva

Programmer

BPlus Tecnologia LTDAComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB 8.7

Based on 34 answers

We will most likely continue to use DynamoDB for certain use-cases. If we stopped using DynamoDB as often, it would likely be because we started using Aurora Serverless more. Aurora Serverless may offer similar availability, management and cost benefits while allowing developers to use their MySQL tools and experience.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

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InterSystems IRIS 7.6

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The interface is very intuitive, the documentation is very good so it is not complicated to operate.

The security is complex, but you can create a special role to access and the user ONLY can operate with the part that it allows.

Also, you can examine the data very quick with the SQL Browser integrated.

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Francisco Lopez de las Heras

Desarrollador de software sénior, Analista

Salutic SolucionesComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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InterSystems IRIS 8.8

Based on 3 answers

The support team is the best in the world. All you need they can help you. The documentation is very good, but the support team can help you in less than 24h (some hours if it's very urgent).

Also, there is a great developers team in a good community that can help you in several languages (English, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, etc.).

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Francisco Lopez de las Heras

Desarrollador de software sénior, Analista

Salutic SolucionesComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We evaluated using MongoDB or Amazon DyanmoDB. For us, the biggest advantage is that there's no maintenance cost for Amazon DynamoDB. Mongo gets complicated when you setup sharding. With Amazon DynamoDB, it's literally a push of button to increase throughput. This saves time and money on DevOps resources.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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The only comparison I can make is that they are all database tools. I strongly believe that just the fact that IRIS is not so widespread and easy to find in research forums is the reason why it is not so "famous". The tool meets and meets all needs for any situation.

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Lucas Soares

System Analyst

BPlusInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Since the Amazon manages the instance, the amount of time a developer needs to spend configuring the database is less. For comparison, if we were to manage the same instance manually, we need to set up EC2 instance, install the DB, setup backup scripts, track backup failures, which is a great overhead for the dev. Using DynamoDB this overhead is reduced and hence having a great ROI.
Great documentation and easy setup makes an easy learning curve to transition to DynamoDB. Only caveat is as with any database, the data structure should be thoroughly analyzed for types of querying because there are limitations with the DynamoDB API.
Ties very well with rest of the Amazon eco system. Having rest of the applications in Amazon allows managing the application security a breeze.

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Anudeep Palanki

Application Developer

Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees

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I believe that the main impact is to be able to meet customer needs. On that point, InterSystems IRIS provided subsidies to make this possible.

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Christian Radoll da Silva

Systems Analyst

BPLUS Tecnologia LTDAInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon DynamoDB Editions & Modules

Edition

On-Demand - Write Operation	$1.25¹
On-Demand Read Operation	$0.25¹
On-Demand Data Stored	$0.25²
On-Demand Point-in-Time Recovery	$0.20²
On-Demand Snapshot	$0.10²
On-Demand Restoring a Backup	$0.15³
On-Demand Global Tables	$1.875⁴
On-Demand Streams	$0.02⁵
On-Demand Data Requests Outside AWS Regions	$0.09⁶
Provisioned - Write Operation	$0.00065⁷
Provisioned - Read Operation	$0.00013⁷
Provisioned - Data Stored	$0.25⁸
Provisioned - Point-in-Time Recovery	$0.20⁸
Provisioned - Snapshot	$0.10⁸
Provisioned - Restoring a Backup	$0.15⁹
Provisioned - Global Tables	$0.000975¹⁰
Provisioned - Streams	$0.02¹¹
Provisioned - Data Requests Outside AWS Regions	$0.09¹²

per million requests
per GB per month
per GB
per million write operations replicated
per 100,000 read operations
per GB
capacity unit per hour
per GB per month
per GB
per Read Capacity
per 100,000 read operations
per GB

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

InterSystems IRIS Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon DynamoDB

InterSystems IRIS

Feature Rating Comparison

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Version control tools

Test data generation

Performance optimization tools

Schema maintenance

Database change management

User management

Database security

Database status reporting

Change management

Pros

Amazon DynamoDB

InterSystems IRIS

Cons

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InterSystems IRIS

Likelihood to Renew

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InterSystems IRIS

Usability

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InterSystems IRIS

Support Rating

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Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Amazon DynamoDB Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

InterSystems IRIS Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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