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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Informix vs. Interbase vs. NuoDB

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational 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
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司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.EmbarcaderoDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2017198419842013
Current releaseNov 20, November 202114.10.FC5, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaC, C++ and JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJava, SQL
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Viewsyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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