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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

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.

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

2009

1984

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

14.10.FC5, November 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

JDBC
JSON API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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