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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in Data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	157.23
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	86.18
Rank	#16	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	6.29
Rank	#69	Overall
	#10	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database

riak.com/products/riak-kv

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.sadasengine.com/index.php/downloads/documentation-columnar-db

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1983

host version

2010

2009

2006

Current release

12.1, October 2016

V12

2.1.0, April 2015

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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