DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. SAP IQ vs. Stardog vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. SAP IQ vs. Stardog vs. WakandaDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1983

host version

1994

2010

2012

Current release

12.1, October 2016

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

12 Most Popular Databases in 2024
6 June 2024, MarkTechPost

Denial of Service in IBM DB2 Universal Database
1 June 2024, ITPro Today

Use AWS DMS to migrate data from IBM Db2 DPF to an AWS target | Amazon Web Services
28 May 2024, AWS Blog

Precisely Supports Amazon RDS for Db2 Service with Real-Time Data Integration Capabilities
3 April 2024, Precisely

IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
29 November 2023, The Register

provided by Google News

New Services for SAP HANA Cloud Database
7 April 2021, SAP News

SAP Products & Services Data Portfolio
2 July 2021, Datamation

SAP Scales Out HANA In-Memory For Clouds
6 March 2014, EnterpriseAI

Using SAP Hana as a data warehouse
17 August 2015, ComputerWeekly.com

Arcion CTO on building effective data pipelines – Blocks and Files
28 June 2022, Blocks & Files

provided by Google News

Share this page