DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

IBM

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1983

host version

1991

2013

2010

2020

Current release

12.1, October 2016

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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