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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. InfinityDB vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

boilerbay.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Mobiland AG

Boiler Bay Inc.

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2018

2002

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

4.0

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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