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DBMS > EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. Informix vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. Informix vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBSearch engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.exasol.comboilerbay.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixmanticoresearch.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
manual.manticoresearch.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperExasolBoiler Bay 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.Manticore SoftwareSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20002002198420172004
Current release4.014.10.FC5, November 20206.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesFixed schemayes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnono

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