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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PostGIS

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendWell established RDBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablespostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Actian CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release20051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20122005
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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