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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. MonetDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA relational database management system that stores data in columnsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.monetdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperIBMMonetDB BVSequoiadb Ltd.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release1983 infohost version200420132013
Current release12.1, October 2016Dec2023 (11.49), December 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
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
proprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, RJavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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