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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogleIBMInterSystemsAlex KashirinApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20152014201820202014
Current release2023.3, June 20230.5, April 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesSource-replica replicationyes, 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 consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Google Cloud BigtableIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInterSystems IRISSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTrafodion
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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