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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2objectbox.iowww.sqlite.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationIBMObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20131983 infohost version201720002014
Current release1558512.1, October 20163.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Proprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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