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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Infobright vs. Informix vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Infobright vs. Informix vs. openGauss

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.IBM, 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.Huawei and openGauss community
Initial release2013200519842019
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20203.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC, C++ and JavaC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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