DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Ingres vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Ingres vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.snowflake.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

IBM

Actian Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

host version

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

1987

Current release

12.1, October 2016

12.0, July 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Ingres Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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