DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store

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Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

IBM

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

1983

host version

2009

2014

2003

2016

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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