InterSystems IRIS vs. Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
InterSystems IRIS
Score 8.3 out of 10
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It includes…N/A
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Kaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.N/A
Pricing
InterSystems IRISKaminario K2 (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
InterSystems IRISKaminario K2 (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
InterSystems IRISKaminario K2 (discontinued)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
InterSystems IRISKaminario K2 (discontinued)
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
InterSystems IRIS
7.3
44 Ratings
16% below category average
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)
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Ratings
Version control tools6.838 Ratings00 Ratings
Test data generation7.739 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance optimization tools6.942 Ratings00 Ratings
Schema maintenance7.542 Ratings00 Ratings
Database change management7.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
InterSystems IRIS
7.4
44 Ratings
16% below category average
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)
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Ratings
User management7.344 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security7.544 Ratings00 Ratings
Database status reporting7.641 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management7.443 Ratings00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
InterSystems IRISKaminario K2 (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(44 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
InterSystems IRISKaminario K2 (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
InterSystems
Intersystems IRIS is a really great tool for Interoperability. It has so many capabilities out of the box and then such a great developer community on top of that, that there are really no limits to what you can do in terms of data manipulation and translation. Personally I find it to be a great tool if you are looking for Interoperability software.
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Silk
K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash.
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Pros
InterSystems
  • Connecting with mutliple vendor platforms and systems allowing us to consume and provide data as needed.
  • Allowed us to implement our own RESTful api engine to server data to our internal applications.
  • Setting up their recommendations for high availability allow us to perform server maintenance with minimal down time to our users.
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Silk
  • Great performance
  • Great support
  • Super-simple to use
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Cons
InterSystems
  • Enhanced documentation, more comprehensive and user-friendly documentation, including detailed tutorials and examples
  • Improving compatibility and integrations with others programming languages
  • Introducing tools and techniques to optimize the performance of ObjectScript applications, such as profiling tools, performance monitoring utilities, and code optimization guidelines
  • A better compatibility with Python libraries
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Silk
  • Not well known, so third-party support is lacking
  • Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1)
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Usability
InterSystems
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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Silk
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Support Rating
InterSystems
The InterSystems WRC has always been helpful and responsive. The folks I have spoken with are always understanding of our needs and questions and regardless of if the question is simple or complex we are always met with the same professionalism and helpfulness every time. I have no hesitations contacting InterSystems for help!
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Silk
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
InterSystems
Will done based on a proper planning, so this will makes execution more easier and better.
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Silk
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Alternatives Considered
InterSystems
We are using InterSystems IRIS [especially] for database operations as the query performance is really good for [a large] amount of customer data. You can easily integrate for any application like web, desktop, and many more. It also provides BI functionality which is also very easy to implement using InterSystems IRIS[.]
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Silk
We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford
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Return on Investment
InterSystems
  • Very Fast and scalable software to deal with big data flow, safe and robust.
  • The studio IDE is quite old fashion and lacks a few facilities
  • amazing for complex data consumption, its milyi-model capability wich allows multiple different models for a single set of codes.
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Silk
  • Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks.
  • Less time managing storage.
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