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System Properties Comparison Informix vs. Teradata vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

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NameInformix  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 dataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.teradata.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.xtdb.com/­docs
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.TeradataByteDance, originally TerarkJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1984198420162019
Current release14.10.FC5, November 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoHashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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