DBMS > Informix vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Informix vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

1995

2017

2019

2008

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

dynamic typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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