DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

1997

2013

2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

12.1, October 2016

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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