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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2manticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2manual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperIBMManticore SoftwareMicrosoftPerconaAlex Kashirin
Initial release1983 infohost version2017199220152020
Current release12.1, October 20166.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.10-2.10, November 20170.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.Can index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and roles

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