DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn embedded key-value store for Go.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsWidely used RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2maxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2maxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAlibabaIBMSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Oracle
Initial release201620131983 infohost version19841980
Current release12.1, October 20167.9.10.12, February 202423c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree version is availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageGoC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesNavicat for Oracle improves the efficiency and productivity of Oracle developers and administrators with a streamlined working environment.
» more

Devart ODBC driver for Oracle accesses Oracle databases from ODBC-compliant reporting, analytics, BI, and ETL tools on both 32 and 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBoltDBIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2MaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOracle
DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL is the DBMS of the Year 2019
3 January 2020, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

The struggle for the hegemony in Oracle's database empire
2 May 2017, Paul Andlinger

Architecting eCommerce Platforms for Zero Downtime on Black Friday and Beyond
25 November 2016, Tony Branson (guest author)

show all

Conferences, events and webinars

Oracle Cloud World
Las Vegas, 9-12 September 2024

Recent citations in the news

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
16 April 2024, Datanami

Top data analytics tools comparison: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM
5 December 2019, Wire19

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

25 Best Cloud Service Providers (Public and Private) in 2024
4 June 2023, CybersecurityNews

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
19 April 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

What I learnt from building 3 high traffic web applications on an embedded key value store.
21 February 2018, hackernoon.com

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss
1 March 2024, The Hacker News

Three Reasons DevOps Should Consider Rocky Linux 9.4
15 May 2024, DevOps.com

Roblox’s cloud-native catastrophe: A post mortem
31 January 2022, InfoWorld

How to Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore
22 April 2023, The New Stack

provided by Google News

Announcing Amazon RDS for Db2 with license through AWS Marketplace | Amazon Web Services
21 May 2024, AWS Blog

Simplify workload management and cloud provisioning with Amazon RDS for Db2’s consumption-based licensing
21 May 2024, ibm.com

IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
29 November 2023, The Register

Precisely says it's smoothing migration of Db2 analytics data to AWS cloud – Blocks and Files
5 April 2024, Blocks & Files

Data migration strategies to Amazon RDS for Db2 | Amazon Web Services
15 May 2024, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

SAP Content Server High Availability using Amazon EFS and SUSE | Amazon Web Services
30 December 2020, AWS Blog

SAP Aligns Mainstream Maintenance Commitments Across Its Enterprise Solutions
11 August 2020, SAP News

What is SAP S/4HANA?
21 March 2022, TechTarget

Alibaba Cloud Offers Access to SAP Software for Customers
5 June 2018, Alizila

Dear SAP, Why Don't You Make Hana A Success?
28 July 2021, E3-Magazin

provided by Google News

Understanding the different Oracle Database options under the OCI-Microsoft Azure partnership
21 May 2024, Oracle

Blog Theme - Details
22 May 2024, Oracle

AI-Fueled Enterprise Data Management: The Rise Of Oracle Database 23ai
7 May 2024, Forbes

Oracle Database 23ai Brings the Power of AI to Enterprise Data and Applications
2 May 2024, PR Newswire

Oracle Database 23ai - all of your data should be in one place, argues CTO Larry Ellison
3 May 2024, diginomica

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here