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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Informix vs. mSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things datamSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM, 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.Hughes TechnologiesSybase, SAP
Initial release20122010198419941993
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20204.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCErlangC, C++ and JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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