DBMS > EJDB vs. Informix vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Informix vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Ultipa

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/informix

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Softmotions

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.

Kyligence, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

1984

2016

1993

2019

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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