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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. OpenSearch vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1983

host version

2021

2020

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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