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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2objectbox.iorockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.objectbox.iodocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­hanawww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMObjectBox LimitedRocksetSAPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1983 infohost version2017201920101987
Current release12.1, October 20162.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedAppliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoSQLScript, Ryes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneAutomatic shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)online/offline synchronization between client and serveryesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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