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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. Titan

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS for high security requirementsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comlinter.rugithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2kairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperIBMKineticarelex.ruAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release1983 infohost version2013201219902012
Current release12.1, October 20161.2.2, November 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC, C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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