DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. c-treeACE vs. Informix

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. c-treeACE vs. Informix

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

High speed key-value store, desgined for high availability, mission critical applications with automatic recovery and immediately consistent transaction support.

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides DB2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS info

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS info

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	61.63
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#206	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	25.51
Rank	#26	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.faircom.com/-products/-c-treeace

www.ibm.com/products/informix

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

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

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

IBM, HCL Technologies info

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

2012

1979

1984

Current release

V11.5, November 2017

14.10, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial info

Restricted, free version available

commercial info

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows info

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API info

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding info

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Top Features High-speed transaction processing Immediately consistent, ACID-compliant,...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

VISA, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, CommVault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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