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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Interbase vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesphinxsearch.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMEmbarcaderoOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release1983 infohost version1984201520012020
Current release12.1, October 2016InterBase 2020, December 20193.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageErlangnono
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Interbase Change Viewsselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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