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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. SpatiaLite

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kingbase.com.cnwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Circonus LLC.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20142005201719992008
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Standard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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