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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Informix vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.ibm.com/products/informix

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

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

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Axibase Corporation

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.

STS Soft SC

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

1984

2011

2020

Current release

15585

14.10.FC5, November 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

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

.NET Client API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C#
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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