DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Time Series DBMS

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

IBM

ObjectBox Limited

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1983

host version

2017

2004

2013

1994

Current release

12.1, October 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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