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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. RavenDB vs. SQLite

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Vector DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
ravendb.netwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2documentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestopensearch.org/­docs/­latestravendb.net/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperIBMProgress Software CorporationAmazon Web ServicesHibernating RhinosDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1983 infohost version1984202120102000
Current release12.1, October 2016OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.5.0, January 20235.4, July 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC#C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4ShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno
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IBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2OpenEdgeOpenSearchRavenDBSQLite
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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