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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. EXASOL vs. Informix vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	18.85
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.exasol.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.exasol.com/resources

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

ActiveViam

Exasol

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Initial release

2000

1984

2017

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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