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InterSystems IRIS® is a cloud-based, full-featured data platform being used in high scale, mission critical applications around the world
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Overview
InterSystems IRIS® is a cloud-based, full-featured data platform being used in high scale, mission critical applications around the world. It is optimized for high throughput applications that must simultaneously process transactions and a range of analytics, including analytic SQL, business rules, and machine learning. It is a complete data platform that provides SQL and NoSQL database management, data and application integration, and a range of analytics capabilities in a single, cloud-based, easy-to-use product, speeding implementations, simplifying maintenance, and eliminating the need to move or copy data to different environments.
InterSystems IRIS provides concurrent transactional and analytic processing capabilities; support for multiple, fully synchronized data models (relational, hierarchical, object, and document); a complete interoperability platform for integrating disparate data silos and applications; and sophisticated analytics capabilities supporting batch and real-time use cases.
InterSystems IRIS also provides an open analytics environment for incorporating advanced analytics developed in external environments into InterSystems IRIS solutions, and provides flexible deployment capabilities to support any combination of cloud and on-premises deployments.
InterSystems IRIS is a single product built from the ground up with a unified architecture to support a wide range of applications and scenarios. Typical use cases include business 360 with business user self-service, customer 360, risk and compliance applications, supply chain visibility, IT/OT convergence, and a range of predictive and prescriptive analytics use cases.
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Highlights
- Optimized for extremely high-performance simultaneous processing of transactional and analytic workloads in a single engine with high resource efficiency.
- Multi-model database engine natively supports relational, document, object, key-value, and multidimensional data types.
- Embedded analytics includes business intelligence, text analytics, and predictive modeling, with an embedded Python engine and high-performance interfaces to popular analytics platforms and packages.
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Each hourly rate maps to one specific AWS EC2 instance type, such as a small shared instance or a larger memory- or compute-focused one. You are billed per hour that instance runs. The software itself carries no charge, so the hourly figures reflect the underlying EC2 compute you choose.
The Community Edition software is free, so it adds no charge whether running or stopped. Hourly charges relate to the EC2 instance running time. A stopped instance does not accrue compute charges, though AWS storage fees for attached volumes may still apply.
The Community Edition carries the same free license and limits regardless of instance type. Larger instance types give more compute, memory, or storage for evaluation and testing. The edition itself caps at 20 cores, so choose an instance size within that limit.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
Getting Started:
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For instructions for interacting with the InterSystems IRIS container, see https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/Doc.View.cls?KEY=ACLOUD
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After connecting to the AWS instance, note the connection information provided and change the default password with the command "iris password"
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Load the InterSystems IRIS Management Portal in your browser with the provided URL, or start the InterSystems Terminal with "docker exec -it iris terminal iris"
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To connect your IDE to InterSystems IRIS, see https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/Doc.View.cls?KEY=AB_idesetup
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Learn more about InterSystems IRIS at https://gettingstarted.intersystems.com and https://learning.intersystems.com
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Support
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InterSystems provides a fast path to get acquainted with our technology, development resources and support. Our Developer Community lets you engage to ask questions and share approaches and solutions. We offer comprehensive online learning courses and activities. Organizations can find the full InterSystems IRIS documentation online and when you need to solve an unexpected issues, the Worldwide Response Centre (WRC) is staffed with professional engineers skilled in application development.
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AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Fabio C.
All-in-One App Platform: Easy Setup, Fast Performance, and Responsive 24/7 Support
Reviewed on Oct 12, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It’s an all-in-one platform for building an application, with essentially every backend component you could need.
It has a GUI to setup your environment, installation is easy and performance stable and fast.
There is a free version for everyone to test out.
Intersystems offers 24/7 support for all of its customers where you generally get a response within an hour depending on the severity of your problem.
The developers community is broad and likes to share their experience.
It has a GUI to setup your environment, installation is easy and performance stable and fast.
There is a free version for everyone to test out.
Intersystems offers 24/7 support for all of its customers where you generally get a response within an hour depending on the severity of your problem.
The developers community is broad and likes to share their experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not as widely used as other programming languages.
The pricing model can be quite high for smaller companies but they usually offer a solution for everyone.
The pricing model can be quite high for smaller companies but they usually offer a solution for everyone.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's the base for our entire software solution.
It provides a database, programming language, developer environments, sandboxes, AI Agent integration, fast processing with low resources.
It provides a database, programming language, developer environments, sandboxes, AI Agent integration, fast processing with low resources.
Hospital & Health Care
FAST, SECURE AND EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE
Reviewed on Oct 09, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that iris keeps all in one place like data storage integration and API's.
The security is built in and being able to use object script and SQL makes development more flexible and it performs very well on heavy load especially when dealing with healthcare data.
The security is built in and being able to use object script and SQL makes development more flexible and it performs very well on heavy load especially when dealing with healthcare data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is a bit difficult because it has a lot of features and can be difficult for a beginner to understand without a senior or trainer.
overall, it takes time to get comfortable
overall, it takes time to get comfortable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has all in one place so no need to have different tools for database, integration and analytics
Djonata N.
Straightforward Data Manipulation with Elegant SQL Joins
Reviewed on Oct 06, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is how straightforward data manipulation is. I love using simple commands to open a database register, like %Open, or accessing records by index using IdxUserNameOpen. On top of that, writing implicit joins using the -> operator in SQL queries is hands down the most elegant way to query data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The license model is a bit complicated. It's not always simple to understand or accurately measure how licensing is consumed in real-world scenarios.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest benefit I found in IRIS is that I don't need multiple databases anymore—one for caching, another for structured data, and a separate one for columnar values. Everything is handled in one single place.
Paulo Z.
Impeccable Fluency, Necessary Modernization
Reviewed on Sep 26, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the fluency of InterSystems IRIS and its unique global features. It's the first time I've used a technology with this capability, and I find it incredibly interesting. I enjoy how globals can be modified into tables, which makes them versatile and fascinating to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
I work with something deprecated called Studio, and I find it quite complicated to use because it doesn't have many features. This bothers me a lot. I hope to use newer technologies in the future, like Visual Studio Code, which would probably provide me with a better experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
InterSystems IRIS allows me to process data very quickly and with precision, handling large datasets effectively.
Eric B.
Powerful All-in-One platform, worth the learning curve
Reviewed on Sep 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The things I liked the most are the performance, having the multidimensional engine is really fast to read and write even with high data volume and it gets really impressive when compared with relational databases. Also, I'd like to say that it is really multimodel, so you are able to access the same data with SQL, as an object, or using the Globals. For the last thing, the interoperability module is very mature and there's a lot of features ready-made.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some things about IRIS that bother me a little bit, the small community, when you compare it with other technologies, is very niche. I asked about IRIS to a lot of people and they don't know what it is. Because of that, it is harder to solve very specific problems, sometimes you will have only the answer at old forums. The job market is very limited, it is hard to find someone who has experience with IRIS, and to hire someone and train them takes time. The licensing cost is not very accessible, so only big companies can afford it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The built-in interoperability engine has been very important to reduce development time on integration projects. I can use pre-built adapters and visual pipelines to route and transform messages. What took me weeks now takes days.