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DBMS > BigObject vs. IBM Db2 vs. RethinkDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Db2 vs. RethinkDB vs. Transbase

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2rethinkdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2rethinkdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.IBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20151983 infohost version20091987
Current release12.1, October 20162.4.1, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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