DBMS > Ingres vs. MongoDB vs. RDFox vs. Yaacomo vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. MongoDB vs. RDFox vs. Yaacomo vs. Yanza

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

Description

Well established RDBMS

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.mongodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

yaacomo.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Actian Corporation

MongoDB, Inc

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Q2WEB GmbH

Yanza

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2009

2017

2009

2015

Current release

11.2, May 2022

6.0.7, June 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

none

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

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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