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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. NSDb vs. Realm vs. VoltDB

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 KubernetesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational 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
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Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2nsdb.iorealm.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2nsdb.io/­Architecturerealm.io/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperIBMRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019VoltDB Inc.
Initial release1983 infohost version201720142010
Current release12.1, October 201611.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, ScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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 indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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