DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

arcadedb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Arcade Data

IBM

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2021

1983

host version

2016

2013

Current release

September 2021

12.1, October 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

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

relationship in graphs

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

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