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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. MonetDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Titan

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA relational database management system that stores data in columnsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.monetdb.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperIBMMonetDB BVProgress Software CorporationAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release1983 infohost version200419842012
Current release12.1, October 2016Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Ryesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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