DBMS > Informix vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Informix vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/torodb/server

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

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.

Mireo

8Kdata

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

2020

2016

2001

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Docker
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

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON API

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

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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