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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Informix vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Informix vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataWell established RDBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.cominformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.actian.com/­ingreswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Actian CorporationSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release201219841974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2006
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202114.10.FC5, November 202011.2, May 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++ and JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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