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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
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Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sadasengine.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperIBMOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1983 infohost version2017200920062012
Current release12.1, October 20166.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ErlangC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
Java
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangnono
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)replication via a shared file systemselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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