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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. PlanetScale vs. RethinkDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. PlanetScale vs. RethinkDB vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial 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
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbplanetscale.comrethinkdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2kairosdb.github.ioplanetscale.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMPlanetScaleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release1983 infohost version2013202020091987
Current release12.1, October 20161.2.2, November 20182.4.1, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
TriggersyesnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelAtomic single-document operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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