InterSystems IRIS vs dbForge Edge: Which is a better fit?

Valdeir V

Software Developer

The software is very fast and easy to use. The documentation is very good and it has a lot of good information.

And others that were lost because of the broad range of possibilities not finding their way.

Even if you only need to work with text files or handle thousands of http requests IRIS will provide great performance, monitorig tools and superb stabilty.

Unless you configure the admin settings properly at the beginning , you'll get a lot of permission restrictions later on and dealing with those can be frustrating.

Easy to manage the data and analyse, its very good for the one who need to analyse the big database data and it support all kind of database.

The look and feel, I miss some interaction between classes and the business process fields. You need to copy paste classes to the fields instead of a rolldown in some cases.

Eventually we can use this as a database and integration engine as well. I really recommend this wonderful product.

Using Cache Object script can be a pain as the error codes can be quite difficult to work with and the Studio IDE lacks some ease-of-use features.

We found that migrating test data with the data sync feature saved a ton of time when we had good working data in DEV and needed a similar set of good working data in QA for testing.

Worse thing was that it had changed to the master database and it wasn't obvious that it had... so now I have a lot of extra tables in master.

I love this software and it offers a great value over its competitors and a shortened learning curve for those of use who use SSMS.

Glitches can be still found here and there, especially in error handling.

I love being able to completely copy a database from one server to another with a few clicks, which makes it super quick to keep my dev environment in sync with the live database.

I can open only one search tab in SSMS. I have installed this on the two new replacement computers since I purchased dbForge and experienced the same problem.

It's nice having them all in one consistent interface and the software is very easy to use.

The "Edit View" feature is a little clunky--you cannot edit SQL directly in the SQL tab, and when you try to do it in the Query Text tab, it constantly throws errors as you type.