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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Informix vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Informix vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. Yanza

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereyanza.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperEsgynIBM, 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.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereYanza
Initial release20151984200920102015
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC, C++ and JavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresyesErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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