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What is InterSystems IRIS?
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 the capabilities of InterSystems Cache and Ensemble, plus new capabilities that aim to to make it easy to build and deploy cloud based, analytics-intensive enterprise applications with greater performance and scalability.
InterSystems IRIS provides a set of APIs to operate with transactional persistent data simultaneously: key-value, relational, object, document, multidimensional.
Data can be managed by SQL, Java, node.js, .NET, C++, Python, and native server-side ObjectScript language.
InterSystems IRIS includes an Interoperability engine and modules to build AI solutions. InterSystems IRIS provides features for horizontal scalability (sharding, ECP) and provides High Availability features, Business intelligence, transaction support, and backup.
InterSystems IRIS Features
Database Development Features
- Supported: Version control tools
- Supported: Test data generation
- Supported: Performance optimization tools
- Supported: Schema maintenance
- Supported: Database change management
Database Administration Features
- Supported: User management
- Supported: Database security
- Supported: Database status reporting
- Supported: Change management
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InterSystems IRIS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Africa, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, Middle East, Germany, India, Japan, Europe, South America, UK, USA |
| Supported Languages | Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian |
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What are InterSystems IRIS's top competitors?
Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and MarkLogic Server are common alternatives for InterSystems IRIS.
What is InterSystems IRIS's best feature?
Reviewers rate Database security highest, with a score of 8.1.
Who uses InterSystems IRIS?
The most common users of InterSystems IRIS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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May 18, 2022
Fast, Reliable Technology That Grows With You
We create ERP software primarily for the millwork industry. We need a database that performs well whether our customer has five end-users or a thousand. InterSystems IRIS (and before it, Cache) scale well both in performance and cost. It provides everything you need to create your own applications, including plenty of options for interoperability with other systems and built-in business intelligence tools. It is a multimodel database in which the various models are always synchronized. Even using its own prepackaged IDE, you are free to develop in ObjectScript, Python, SQL, javascript, and Java. For object-oriented programmers like me, it's very easy to pick up and learn everything you need to know.
- Intuitive
- Reliable
- Interoperable
- Scalable
- Flexible
- Licensing
- Documentation of certain features
- Pricing
April 29, 2022
Interoperability is all you need
I use InterSystems IRIS as a cloud-based database together with its multi-model transactional data management engine that allows me to interconnect systems with great ease, as well as flexible access to the different types of data that we deal with in the company. It also provides an application development platform, which I use with a VSCode implementation that seems wonderful to me. It has an interoperability engine that allows us, in a visual way, to carry out multiple processes within the application in a very visual and interactive way.
- Low maintenance required
- Good interconection with other systems
- Database Gestion
- Multi connection
I use InterSystems IRIS to develop solutions to interoperability problems within hospital trusts. The solutions I develop allow for more efficient working systems within hospitals which leads to better patient care. The InterSystems engine contains a great many tools to enable me to fulfill this role and a huge amount of documentation to enable me to learn and use the systems effectively.
- HL7 interoperability.
- Documentation.
- REST API integration.
- Updates to ObjectScript compiler.
- Some areas of documentation are missing/sparse.
February 02, 2022
One of the best data management tools for health care industry
Using it with Visual Studio code for database integration for my client's project.
- Integration over cloud
- Value for money
- Low maintenance required
- Some issues with Java connection sometimes, which can be improved
- Product has a few security vulnerabilities with Apache
- Performance can also be improved a bit
January 17, 2022
Advanced Integration Platform
Our team likes the ease of use to update and manage the database of InterSystems IRIS Platform. We can put a large amount of different data in a single stable
database that can be queried by several different platforms. It is also
quite stable and works well in our organization.
- Amazing for complex data consumption
- Easy to use interface
- Competent support and large community
- Hard to work with platform for beginner
- Valid documentation and tutorials are hard to find
- Not easy [to] configure security with a out-standard configuration
January 04, 2022
performance, analysis and storage all in one click
The use of InterSystems IRIS within the company has contributed to the improvement in the information analysis, storage, organization and flow control processes through defined channels, providing fluidity in the use and management of information. In the commercial area, it has raised productivity to 100% while maintaining the reliability of the information through a solid, accurate, and reliable database. At the same time, cloud storage is optimal, providing security and protection of confidential data.
- cloud storage, providing support and data security.
- information analysis and autonomy in processes
- high performance database management
- simplify your most demanding data-intensive applications.
- makes it easier to build high-performance
- creation and interface with users to access the system.
- more defined information flow schemes.
- increased security with cloud storage
December 08, 2021
Gem for Data Management
I found InterSystems IRIS is one of the best [tools] for data management in an organization. Easy to use interface and provides high performance for managing data. You can easily execute database operations very quickly and reliably. It is easy to integrate with [another system] for providing [large-scale] deployment to the customers.
- Database operation is really quick[.]
- You can easily integrate it with other machine learning applications[.]
- It supports all programming language hence it's a gem for all developers[.]
- Interface can be improved a bit[.]
December 08, 2021
Inter Systems IRIS Review
Inter Systems IRIS is used in our organization to be able to create and provide a new database for our personal use and access. Since its a multi-model transactional data management engine, everything is very easy and accessible. The programming and the data input to the system [are] just a breeze when it comes to working with this platform.
- Provides Backup and Recovery[.]
- It has Multiple Programming Languages Supported[.]
- The ability of Data Migration[.]
- Permission restrictions
it is a fantastic platform the helps me to upload a large amount of data and media management and integrate with multiple applications simultaneously executing [at] a fast speed on a secure way [without] compromising our [client's] personal information, data can be managed by SQL, java, nodes.js, .NET and multidimensional.
- The speed of performance is good and fast and reliable[.]
- Having an [immense] amount of features integrated with the solution[.]
- Its easy to use and fully documented, and has a learning platform[.]
- Its not easy configure security with a out-standard configuration[.]
- Would like to see more features to support the Developers.
- You need to copy paste classes to the fields instead of a rolldown in some cases[.]
December 07, 2021
InterSystems IRIS - "A reliable and efficient application"
I have worked with InterSystems IRIS in several organizations. InterSystems IRIS is a great application that has helped these organizations to operate efficiently and profitably. This software has collected, integrated, managed, and analyzed data, which has improved decision-making in those organizations. As a result, their strategies and visibility have improved, which has increased revenue as well.
- InterSystems IRIS operates efficiently, therefore, it does not crash often. However, if there are any issues with the software they are resolved in a short period of time since InterSystems IRIS' support team is very responsive.
- InterSystems IRIS collects and analyzes data, which improves decision making.
- InterSystems IRIS is very secure. Therefore, the company's data is protected.
- There should be better tutorials so that people can learn how to use the application correctly and derive their benefits from using the application.
- The administration portal is difficult to use, therefore, this should be improved.
- The number of themes in the application should be increased.
November 28, 2021
Fast, Solved and Cheap System
InterSystems IRIS is a high-speed and user-oriented platform. Being a cloud-based system is one of its best features. A system that facilitates rapid data processing and quick action. In my opinion, I recommend that users who use this type of use definitely use this system. Its interface is definitely not difficult to use, it has an easy and understandable appearance.
- A quick watch system
- Cloud-based operation
- See everything as all in one
- Minor system bugs
- Sometimes server lags
November 12, 2021
Flexibility, speed, innovation, support = IRIS
InterSystems IRIS is our primary database backbone and utilized in all aspects of our organization. We have written Object Script to provide the business layer to our home grown accounting, procurement, distribution, warehouseing systems. The flexibility of InterSystems IRIS has allowed us to tackle any challenge and desire our company has facced, allowing us to interface with other systems, provide access to our data across multiple platforms and perform with the speed required to meet our needs.
- 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.
- InterSystems documentation has some room to improve but has been on the right track over the last couple of years.
- InterSystems needs to find a way to get more developers in volved so that it is easier to find help when searching for ObjectScript developers.
- Sometimes if feels like system features are forgotten about without being completed. What is a hot idea and new feature one year becomes half baked and forgortten about going forward. Example: High availability/mirrored environment with the use of Productions.
October 26, 2021
Best in the business
We are using Intersystems IRIS for some time now and are quite satisfied with the performance so far. It provides a single stack environment within the core of the system to derive business intelligence and unstructured data capabilities. We are impressed with its potential to develop strong business objects. IRIS offers a higher level of integrated functionality and a robust connectivity engine to the users.
- Allows to manage data by Java, SQL, node.js, .NET, C++, Python, and others.
- Includes Cache database and facilitates prompt monitoring of the incoming/outgoing messages.
- Provides an array of API to operate with transactional persistent data.
- Single stack environment for providing business intelligence into the core of the system.
- Transactional support is commendable
- Arduous to modify the generated reports.
- New technology difficult to understand and implement.
- UX in the administration should be more simplified.
October 04, 2021
Good ecosystems getting better!
We use InterSystems IRIS on all our IT worldwide installations across several departments. Currently used as our Healcare DB in our diagnostics laboratory installations. It serves as a communication hub and lab monitoring to communicate with all the other equipment including laboratory analyzers, other middleware, hospital IT solutions, lab IT solutions and several other hosts.
- New docker releases
- Fast database
- Configurability
- Simplification
- Lack of consistency across decisions
August 30, 2021
InterSystems IRIS in a nutshell!
[InterSystems IRIS] is used by our department in executing and implementing otherwise difficult queries on a huge data set. It is high-end and interoperable, thus making integration efficient and easier. This helps us lower the total cost of ownership, reduce the amount of repetitive coding saving a lot of time, and yields better ROI.
- Data Analytics
- Complex SQL Queries
- Interoperability
- Less tutorials/learning material available publicly
- Requires training
- Not very common and popular
May 23, 2021
Intersystem IRIS
Using InterSystems IRIS to build high performance systems. We also use the machine learning aspects of the IRIS as well to get some recommendations and to predict the future patterns as well. After using IRIS it helps us save lot of time as we have to write less codes and effective system.
- Easy to build high performance systems
- Machine learning enabled
- Less maintenance
- Need more documentation
- Some places are complex
May 13, 2021
InterSystems IRIS simplifies the most complex data applications. It's reliable and excellent.
InterSystems [IRIS] technologies serve as the backbone of many of our product offerings over the years. It is a reliable and fast Database, that allow us to offering quickly innovative solutions in record time. It is not limited only to just a database, it is a complete package that offers high-performance database maintenance, interoperability, and analytics features all built-in from the ground up to date, which simplifies the most complex data-intensive applications
- It's performance and scalability to all our outdated redundant systems.
- Integrated interface between objects and SQL
- Interoperability
- High performance data platform
- Intersystems technology is not that popular
- It can still be relatively challenging to hire expertise with in depth knowledge of InterSystems technologies.
April 01, 2021
IRIS: Fast and safe
We only work with InterSystems, so we used the Caché for a long time. We are currently migrating to IRIS, we have already done tests internally and now we are migrating client applications, and the difference is already noticeable, IRIS is really better.
- Security
- Easy to work
- A redesign of the portal's administration screens
- For my use, I don't see any improvement
March 22, 2021
Velocity, Integrity and Security in One Tool
InterSystems IRIS is still in the process of migration. We have had Caché for much longer, however, all paths lead to this change. They took a tool that was already good and stood out from the rest, and turned it into a fantastic tool now. Regardless of this, at this moment we work exclusively with InterSystems, which guarantees us an unquestionable quality.
- Velocity.
- Security.
- Integrity.
- IDE platform.
March 20, 2021
IRIS, the true view of a database.
We are migrating the Caché system to IRIS in some departments. I believe that the trend is, over time, to migrate the entire company. Caché has always been the basis of the entire company, but IRIS came to replace it. The tendency is for this to happen naturally, not least because IRIS managed to further improve what was already very good.
- Security.
- Agility.
- Easy to work.
- Not having an IDE platform.
March 03, 2021
IRIS, a union of two good tools in just the best one
We [have worked] with InterSystems [IRIS], since IRIS [was] released. We [have] done tests with our internal applications and started to implement upgrades to clients in Brazil. We like a lot of this tool because we have a great usage of Iris with new technologies, like SAAS on AWS, docker,etc.
- Multidimensional database
- Work with new technologies
- Work as integration tool with Ensemble
- Improvement of globals
- Improvement with SQL
February 22, 2021
Great Platform - One of the best Scalability Solutions
We have used Caché for some time here at the company, and now we are migrating our software to this new IRIS platform. We are using it in part of a system that we provide maintenance and evolution.
The Program is a DMS (Dealership Management System). We are gradually migrating the system so that it can have more fluid screens, and with IRIS this is very practical, since it allows the integration of open technologies / frameworks.
The Program is a DMS (Dealership Management System). We are gradually migrating the system so that it can have more fluid screens, and with IRIS this is very practical, since it allows the integration of open technologies / frameworks.
- 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.
- For now, I don't see any aspect where improvement was needed.
February 19, 2021
Brilliant piece of software
InterSystems IRIS is being used at multiple branches of our company. It started with departmental implementation but in the last few months we have upgraded other departments. Almost all our departments have already implemented InterSystems IRIS and we are loving the secure features it offers us.
- Database management
- Security
- API support
- Brilliant interface
- Good customer support
- Requires training
- Admin portal is difficult to use
- Cache studio needs improvement
- Slightly costly
January 05, 2021
Wish we had IRIS earlier
InterSystems IRIS is being across the whole company, and it's been great for us so far. We mainly use it for customer management, vendor management, and as an integration platform. InterSystems IRIS has given us great performance despite having a quite bulky database. Being in the e-learning industry, we have a lot of data coming from multiple sources about students, schools, colleges and all sorts of examinations. The database performance of InterSystems IRIS has simply been remarkable.
- Database management
- Customer service is exceptional
- Security
- API development
- Requires trained staff
- Better tutorials could be made available
- Takes time to learn how to use the database properly
December 29, 2020
Efficient and Time Saving software
We used InterSystems IRIS only in a few departments at the time, but it was still under expansion for more departments. We used it mainly for creating APIs and BI and communication purposes. Some features that set IRIS apart from others was the support to open technologies and database access.
- Query Management
- Database
- Creating APIs
- Administration portal
- More themes could be great
- UI is confusing