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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Informix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Informix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­informixazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperMicrosoftIBM, 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.MicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release20101984201520092020
Current release14.10.FC5, November 2020V13.2.0, December 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation language.NET and CC, C++ and JavaErlangC++
Server operating systems.NETAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesno
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 indexesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
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
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoErlangno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, using Riak Security

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