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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Trend Chart
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2boilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisrdf4j.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsrdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperIBMBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release1983 infohost version2002201820042013
Current release12.1, October 20164.02023.3, June 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnono
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IBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2InfinityDBInterSystems IRISRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameRocksDB
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