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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score127.49
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score45.84
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hanawww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAPSimer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1983 infohost version2015201020181987
Current release12.1, October 20163.0.0, September 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based servicenono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Appliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitedyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangSQLScript, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factoryesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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