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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Informix vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.sadasengine.comwww.sequoiadb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.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.SADAS s.r.l.Sequoiadb Ltd.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20051984200620132018
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20208.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++ and JavaC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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