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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1983

host version

2013

2016

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.7.6, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version 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 C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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