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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. WakandaDB

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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 comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRDF storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
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
Trend Chart
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.orgrocksdb.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Facebook, Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release1983 infohost version2016200420132012
Current release12.1, October 20169.4.0, June 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding, horizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnonoyes

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