DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Ingres vs. Yandex Database (YDB)

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Ingres vs. Yandex Database (YDB)

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
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	159.19
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.84
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#235	Overall
	#36	Document stores
	#113	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

www.actian.com/data-management/ingres-sql-rdbms

cloud.yandex.com/en/services/ydb
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

docs.actian.com/ingres

cloud.yandex.com/en/docs/ydb
ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

IBM

Actian Corporation

Yandex

Initial release

1983

host version

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2019

Current release

12.1, October 2016

11.0, April 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Ingres Replicator

Active-passive shard 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

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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