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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. Riak KV

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
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Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftIBMOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1983 infohost version201620002009
Current release12.1, October 20163.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyesErlang
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, using Riak Security

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IBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMRiak KV
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