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System Properties Comparison Informix vs. OpenEdge vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Prometheus vs. SiriDB

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NameInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 dataApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series 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
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbprometheus.iosiridb.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
documentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbprometheus.io/­docsdocs.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.Progress Software CorporationPerconaCesbit
Initial release19841984201520152017
Current release14.10.FC5, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaC++GoC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes 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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4ShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
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.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple rights management via user accounts

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