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DBMS > Informix vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Informix vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB

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NameInformix  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.siridb.com
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.MarkLogic Corp.SADAS s.r.l.Sybase, SAPCesbit
Initial release19842001200619932017
Current release14.10.FC5, November 202011.0, December 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
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
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL92yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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