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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

1994

2015

Current release

12.1, October 2016

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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