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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. Vertica vs. YugabyteDB

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.vertica.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.objectbox.iovertica.com/­documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBMObjectBox LimitedSTS Soft SCOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardYugabyte Inc.
Initial release1983 infohost version2017201120052017
Current release12.1, October 20164.0 (May 2024)4.0.8, September 201512.0.3, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C#C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.depending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Proprietary native API.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C#
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnonoyes, called Custom Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnonenonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashyes
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IBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2ObjectBoxSTSdbVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™YugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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