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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperIBMinformationpartners gmbhAlessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1983 infohost version201520082013
Current release12.1, October 20161.05.0.0, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Windowsserver-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoon the application servernoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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