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NameInformix Xexclude from comparisonMySQL Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides DB2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataWidely used open source RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Key/Value like access via memcached API
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Time Series DBMS with Informix TimeSeries Extension
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DeveloperIBM, 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.Oracle
since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release19841995
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20208.0.23 , January 2021
License Commercial or Open Sourcecommercial
free developer edition availableOpen Source
GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes
Typing predefined data types such as float or dateyes
Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL Support of SQLyesyes
with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON API MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
RubyAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored proceduresyesyes
proprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrityyesyes
not for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
not for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
table locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability Support for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts Access controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
no user groups or roles
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