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System Properties Comparison Informix vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

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.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

1992

2012

2019

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

17, July 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON API

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

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