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System Properties Comparison Informix vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/informix

rocksdb.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.teradata.com

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.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1984

2015

2013

1984

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted
Linux

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON API

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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