DBMS > Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. Speedb vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. Speedb vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used open source RDBMS

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.mysql.com

www.speedb.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Altibase

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Speedb

Yanza

Initial release

1999

1983

host version

1995

2020

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

12.1, October 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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