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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCommon 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 frontendA multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA 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 MongoDBRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.InterSystemsRockset
Initial release1983 infohost version200519972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release12.1, October 20162018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++CCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic 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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
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
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnonenonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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