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InterSystems IRIS

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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…

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Recent Reviews

InterSystems IRIS Review

9 out of 10
March 14, 2024
I work most with InterSystems IRIS Interoperability. My job involves connecting the systems of branch stores with the headquarters. The …
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IRIS Review

6 out of 10
March 05, 2024
InterSystems IRIS is used to support the medical industry, everything from medical history to paying information is stored using IRIS …
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TrustRadius Insights

InterSystems IRIS has been praised by users for its ease of use and suitability for D programmers. It has proven to be a valuable tool for …
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Fast and reliable

9 out of 10
November 03, 2022
With the help of InterSystems IRIS, users can use the TrakCare data to build applications. This tool is useful for application development …
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IRIS & TRAKCARE

9 out of 10
September 15, 2022
Leverage TrakCare data and increase application development speed and capabilities with InterSystems IRIS for Health. Helps in managing …
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  • Database change management (43)
    7.5
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  • Database security (44)
    7.5
    75%
  • Change management (43)
    7.4
    74%
  • User management (44)
    7.3
    73%

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InterSystems IRIS: Kafka, Schema Normalization and Service Enablement

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Product Details

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

InterSystems IRIS Integrations

InterSystems IRIS Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Docker
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAfrica, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, Middle East, Germany, India, Japan, Europe, South America, UK, USA
Supported LanguagesCzech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and MarkLogic Server are common alternatives for InterSystems IRIS.

Reviewers rate Test data generation highest, with a score of 7.7.

The most common users of InterSystems IRIS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

InterSystems IRIS has been praised by users for its ease of use and suitability for D programmers. It has proven to be a valuable tool for building high-performance systems and leveraging machine learning capabilities. Migrating from Caché to IRIS has allowed users to create more fluid screens and integrate open technologies seamlessly.

In the healthcare sector, InterSystems IRIS serves as a communication hub and lab monitoring system in diagnostics laboratories, facilitating efficient data exchange and analysis. It is also utilized as a comprehensive solution for managing patient flows and financial processes within hospital facilities, streamlining operations and improving overall efficiency. Moreover, InterSystems IRIS helps solve interoperability issues, enabling the development of a more digital healthcare system.

Users have appreciated the compatibility of InterSystems IRIS with new technologies such as SAAS on AWS and Docker, which expands its versatility and usability. The platform's stability and ease of use have been commended, making it an ideal choice for organizations seeking efficient data collection, integration, management, and analysis.

InterSystems IRIS has found application in various industries beyond healthcare, such as vendor and customer management, order processing, fulfillment, and e-commerce support. It assists in migrating legacy code, creating APIs to facilitate communication between systems, and developing solutions for interoperability challenges within organizations.

In summary, InterSystems IRIS provides a comprehensive platform that caters to diverse industries' needs by offering advanced functionalities in data management, integration with new technologies, solving interoperability issues, and optimizing workflows. Users have found value in its ability to streamline operations efficiently while providing stability and ease of use.

Users have provided valuable recommendations for the system. According to their feedback, they highly praise the world-leading support from Intersystems. It is recommended to thoroughly assess and verify specific needs before choosing a platform version and tailor the solution for deployment accordingly. Considering migration from COS to the system is suggested as an important work package. These recommendations provide insights into the system's strengths and considerations for its implementation.

Additionally, users recommend the system for fast storage of data. They think it offers simplicity and a strong consulting partnership. The system is also a good choice for handling Big Data and data-driven development.

In summary, the system stands out for its exceptional support, flexibility, scalability, and performance in dealing with large volumes of data.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I work most with InterSystems IRIS Interoperability. My job involves connecting the systems of branch stores with the headquarters. The biggest challenge is transforming a wide variety of data so that the receiving end can understand the message. It also involves data synchronization such as prices, which are used in all branches, mainly using service scheduling.
  • Ease of component reuse in interoperability
  • Even with a great database manager, it allows connecting to other data sources
  • The possibility of building an entire system within Object Script, from backend to frontend
  • 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
As I deal with interoperability 99% of the time in my work, and I really enjoy the functionality of the tool, I would easily recommend this tool to large businesses that have many branches and need a tool to integrate and monitor all of them. Besides liking the fact that I don't need to manually establish a database connection, which makes development much easier.
January 02, 2024

Intersystems in health

Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Intersystems Iris to develop backend of The "Banque Nationale Alzheimer" a health data warehouse.The frontend is build with Angular and connect to the backend with a REST api. The application collects data from all medical consultations concerning Alzheimer or other degenerative brain diseases on French territory.
  • REST Api
  • Security
  • Users administration
  • On-board documentation
  • syntactic compatibility with other languages (for loop, tests)
  • The structure of the documentation is not obvious
Iris is the solution to make professional developments particularly in the health sector.
Many professional tools are available and simplify use (HL7, FHIR).
The support provided by Intersystems is of a very high level with great involvement of stakeholders.
Productivity is therefore greatly increased compared to competing solutions.
July 14, 2023

simple review

Andre Dienes Friedrich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
it is an excellent tool, it helps us with everything we need, the integrations with our client are very transparent and reliable. With the support of InterSystems, today we can integrate and connect our client to different sources, we connect it with services, applications, among others, we use IRIS as a control bus, which brings us all the confidence and security in the data we travel.
  • object-oriented database
  • data bus
  • data security and integrity
  • Multilingual community in one place
  • better console integration
  • more programming language
Based on today's use structure, IRIS brings us confidence in everything we do, in our client, we manage to generate great savings for him thanks to the integration possibilities of IRIS, a simple example is that we connect our client to a service where he manages to manage an entire data structure and customers with just one subscription, thanks to the calling and webhooks features in our services.
Mohamed Benmansour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InterSystems IRIS is a comprehensive platform for developing and deploying web applications with real-time data synchronization across multiple devices. It is also highly scalable with the ability to cache applications for better performance. The platform is capable of translating the structure of an application into a database structure, thus helping to significantly reduce development costs.
  • The quickest way to develop and deploy intelligent applications for enterprise use.
  • This database allows us to track usage trends and identify potential bottlenecks or errors in the system.
  • It provides comprehensive clinical data management capabilities to meet contemporary healthcare requirements.
  • InterSystems IRIS can improve professional training, support and development services.
  • The current documentation is limited on how to use the platform.
  • An outdated-looking presentation.
InterSystems IRIS has obviously increased the speed of development and reduced the risk of mistakes when accessing patient data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use IRIS for Enterprise service bus purposes and for creating custom application in Healthcare
  • Total overview over your message flow
  • Comprehensive way for developing connections between different systems
  • Using industry standards
  • Build better functionality for Version Control
  • Provide tools for developing front end for applications
IRIS is very well suited for developing applications that have a message workflow and different connection to different systems
November 03, 2022

Fast and reliable

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
With the help of InterSystems IRIS, users can use the TrakCare data to build applications. This tool is useful for application development and better manages the health data.I was looking for a database change management solution and this worked well. I was able to track changes in multiple environments and view it in a single pannel. The documentation was pretty useful and I was able to get started with it pretty quickly.
  • For supporting employees, the code table notion is a very nice idea.
  • The implementation of several data streams is quick and efficient thanks to the ability to receive, convert, and route data from many sources into a single standard.
  • Our biggest challenge is constantly educating new chief architects or executives about the significance of the InterSystems platform in our environment.
Has increased the speed of development and has reduced the risk of mistakes as we are able to go back and refer to the changes that have been made to the data in the database.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InterSystems IRIS to work with NHS Trusts to solve their interoperability issues and help develop a more Digital Healthcare system in the UK. I have used multiple InterSystems products to solve customers' interoperability issues/needs, and all do a fantastic job. The technology is incredibly fast, robust, scalable, and intuitive to use.
  • The database, integration engine, and Load balancer are all in one place. This is advantageous because there are no hidden costs and it is also far easier to set up the network configuration.
  • The sales engineers are very willing to help in any situation and they are also incredibly knowledgeable about the product. They often offer more than one solution to your problem, as well as providing the pros & cons of such solutions.
  • Extremely fast & reliable compared to other integration engines. The intuitive nature of the GUI also allows you to easily locate errors, resend messages, and just get a general understanding of what is going on.
  • The documentation can be excellent for some things but then is non-existent for explaining other things. There should be more consistency in the level of the documentation on offer.
  • Not all the methods for classes work, in particular, I have found half the methods for EnsLib.Rest.Service does not work, and doesn't provide any examples of how to use them (e.g. ReportHTTPStatusCode()).
InterSystems IRIS is well suited to solve any interoperability issues for any kind of business. I have used multiple InterSystems products to solve customers' interoperability issues/needs, and all do a fantastic job. The technology is incredibly fast, robust, scalable, and intuitive to use. The InterSystems staff that I have dealt with have been incredibly helpful in providing solutions to the problems that I have encountered. If you are looking for an Intuitive, Reliable, Interoperable, and Scalable solution to your Integration needs, then look no further than InterSystems IRIS.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Helps us to keep the transition simple from our existing InterSystems Cache based databases.

Definitely has better performance in some of the areas as well as has adjusted a lot with the changing needs of the current industry.

Have best scalability and security performance
  • Database change management
  • Versions control pannel
  • The UX in the administration portal could be much better.
Audit log for each and every action is a very good thing.

Overall it cover all hospitals logs

Nothing there to dislike


Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We using InterSystems IRIS as a full solution for our hospital facility to manage entire patient flows and financial flows as well. Technology- and solution-wise it's one super solution. I am previously working with multiple other HIS systems and I found a lot of new things in this HIS solution and users also a lot of new features also available. It's a really good solution.
  • Clinical part
  • RCM part they will done all most all the DHA and insurance integrations.
  • PAS part included the easiest methods for booking appointments and patient management is very easy.
  • Audit log for each and every action is a very good thing.
  • Code table concept is a very good idea for supporting staffs.
  • UI Part little bit improvement required, but that is not a big issue.
  • Once done the future booking for appointment we cannot reschedule the appointment up to today is lesser than that booking date.
  • g.: Today (29/07/2022) I am booking for an appointment on 01/08/2022, I want that appointment to need to reschedule to 31/07/2022, this is not possible.
  • If possible to reschedule the appointment up to the current date is a better option.
  • Patient Bill is cancelled then multiple records are getting created, this will be make confusion for users.
  • For IT staffs if you can provide the database related training it will be more helpful for manage the Realtime requirements.
Technology-wise this is one of the best solutions. Overall this will cover all the needs of hospitals. Clinical part is very strong and easy to manage. Once they start to use they can reduce the time consuming to do the insurance submission-related things. That I am found to be corrected is their design resolution aspects and it will need to be worked in any resolution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It is well suited to taking hospital patient data and automatically routing it to demographic systems as well as the intended destination. It can perform a great many operations on the data automatically to suit the hospital's needs, and thus reduce labour costs for the hospital on an ongoing basis.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
InterSystems IRIS is well suited for organizations that want to use data to increase efficiency and profitability. The InterSystems IRIS does a great job at collecting and analyzing data, which can help organizations to make better decisions. Consequently, organizations can develop better strategies that will increase their revenue, if they utilize this application.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Complex installations where you will have a base monolith to build your application around will work well, having lots of interoperability possibilities. Not so well suited for simple solutions, where you want to decentralize and have small services and don't need high interoperability integrated into the solution out of the box.
April 01, 2021

IRIS: Fast and safe

Larissa Prussak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Surely the speed in data processing, can benefit everyone.
January 05, 2021

Wish we had IRIS earlier

Vinay Salvanca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
InterSystems IRIS is a very advanced platform for database management, and it requires a good amount of training before one can properly use the software. Our main problems being solved are query management and database handling. InterSystems IRIS also offers a remarkable amount of security, which helps us work on confidential data hassle free, so that's a plus for us.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
The rapid development of solutions make it useful for solving customer problems. Parallel query execution is a tool which makes IRIS better than other alternatives. Using IRIS was a little confusing at first, and takes good amount of time to get used to the platform, especially for beginners. Training is recommended.
Francisco Lopez de las Heras | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In my company, we are using Intersystems IRIS as integration platform, usign HL7 message from laboratories and process them in a unique point to process all of them. Each laboratories connect with his reports of patients, and integrate within the insurance database. I don't need an extra application to operate. I can integrate a new laboratory in few minutes. Also, we use IRIS as REST API server to connect to insurance information (patient, reports, etc..) and it adds an extra security for confidential data.
  • Quick integration with HL7.
  • Provides a robust platform for API REST.
  • Quick access for database.
  • High security, integrate OAuth, internal user and password access, etc.
  • Complex language to develop.
  • Needs a special staff to manage as administrator.
  • A lot of security via roles that is could be a bit complex.
Well suited
All about integration, HL7 or FHIR. Don't need to develop extra code because the most used is integrated and is very easy to use.

Less appropriate
Use as html server and display pages. The pages code is very complex, if you want to use to display html pages or create a web application, it's better to use other language (such as Angular) and try to integrate the code.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InterSystems IRIS throughout the company. It assists us in migrating legacy code, solving customer problems through systems development, and creating APIs in a simple and fast way.
  • The support provided by InterSystems was great when I needed to ask some questions about the characteristics of IRIS.
  • It provides several tools that enable the development of BI and API's applications according to the customers' needs.
  • Docker support.
  • The database is robust and offers excellent performance even with a large amount of information.
  • The usability of the administration portal could be better.
  • InterSystems' technology is still not very common, so it is difficult to recruit experienced professionals.
It is recommended for the development of complex applications, as it offers everything needed to build a stable and robust product. In addition, it has tools such as Docker and allows the creation of APIs, which will meet market demands. In a scenario where the development team has no experience with InterSystems technology, the learning curve can be steeper than when using other tools. However, the benefits end up paying off.
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