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DBMS > DuckDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing serviceA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20182014201220182011
Current release1.0.0, June 202411.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustC#
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedhostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
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
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyesno
TriggersnoyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Journaling Streams
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 integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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