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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 vs. SQream DB vs. Tibero

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linuxa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2sqream.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.sqream.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMSQream TechnologiesTmaxSoft
Initial release201820161983 infohost version20172003
Current release1.0.0, June 20245.10, January 202212.1, October 20162022.1.6, December 20226, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions in PythonPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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