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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2nsdb.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.voltdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2nsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.nuodb.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperIBMDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.VoltDB Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release1983 infohost version2017201320102009
Current release12.1, October 201611.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editionscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, ScalaC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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 indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLJava
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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