DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Kingbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Kingbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.kingbase.com.cn

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

IBM

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

1983

host version

1999

2016

1989

Current release

12.1, October 2016

V8.0, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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