DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	157.23
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#276	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#177	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	138.87
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

IBM

Kyligence, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1983

host version

2016

2012

2000

2010

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.39.1 (13 July 2022), July 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights for users and roles

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