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System Properties Comparison Informix vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PouchDB vs. Sqrrl vs. TerminusDB

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NameInformix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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 dataElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspouchdb.comsqrrl.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
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.MicrosoftApache Software FoundationAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842016201220122018
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20207.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaC++JavaScriptJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScriptActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infomaking use of HadoopGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsyesnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Role-based access control

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