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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Infobright vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbplanetscale.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2planetscale.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperChris DavisIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.PlanetScaleSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20061983 infohost version200520201992
Current release12.1, October 201617, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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