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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Trend Chart
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2orientdb.orgwww.sadasengine.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperIBMOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release1983 infohost version2010200920062023
Current release12.1, October 20163.2.29, March 20243.2.0, December 20228.01.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, JavascriptErlangnono
TriggersyesHooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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