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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. KairosDB vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.sqlite.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2kairosdb.github.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperIBMDwayne Richard HippSQream Technologies
Initial release1983 infohost version201320002017
Current release12.1, October 20161.2.2, November 20183.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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