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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Informix vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	Informix  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform	A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Event Store	Graph DBMS	Relational DBMS Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS with Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 17.12 Rank #34   Overall #21   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	galaxybase.com	www.ibm.com/­products/­informix	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com		informix.hcldoc.com www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
Developer	Event Store Limited	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司	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.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	2017	1984	1993
Current release	21.2, February 2021	Nov 20, November 2021	14.10.FC5, November 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	commercial	commercial free developer edition available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C and Java	C, C++ and Java
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux	AIX HP-UX Linux macOS Solaris Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme		Strong typed schema	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	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.		no		no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL		no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods		Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	JDBC JSON API MongoDB compatible MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		Go Java Python	.Net C C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		user defined procedures and functions	yes	yes
Triggers			yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes			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		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes Relationships in graphs	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		Role-based access control	Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	EventStoreDB	Galaxybase	Informix	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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