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System Properties Comparison Informix vs. Manticore Search vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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NameInformix  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBSearch engineDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixmanticoresearch.comravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
manual.manticoresearch.comravendb.net/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperIBM, 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.Manticore SoftwareHibernating RhinosAlex KashirinParadigma Software
Initial release19842017201020201999
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20206.0, February 20235.4, July 20220.5, April 20215.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaC++C#C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.Can index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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