DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. Informix vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. Informix vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	16.32
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

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.

Tencent

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2017

1984

2013

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple authentication-based access control

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