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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Informix vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

postgis.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

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.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

1984

2005

2020

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

14.10.FC5, November 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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