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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 vs. Informix

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java info

also known as HSQLDB

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides DB2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS info

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS info

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store info

in DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)

Document store
Time Series DBMS info

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	4.61
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	171.56
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	25.40
Rank	#27	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/db2

www.ibm.com/analytics/informix

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

IBM

IBM, HCL Technologies info

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.

Initial release

2001

1983

host version

1984

Current release

2.5.0, June 2019

12.1, October 2016

14.10, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

based on BSD license

commercial info

free version is available

commercial info

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM info

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JSON style queries info

MongoDB compatible
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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