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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Rockset

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldbmanticoresearch.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBMGoogleManticore SoftwareRockset
Initial release1983 infohost version2013201120172019
Current release12.1, October 20162.7.6, April 20241.23, February 20216.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++GoC++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleandynamic typing
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.nonoCan index from XMLno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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IBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2InfluxDBLevelDBManticore SearchRockset
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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