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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2splicemachine.comsql.js.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2splicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMSplice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1983 infohost version201420121987
Current release12.1, October 20163.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavanoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
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-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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