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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. SQream DB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 simplicityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarya GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Circonus LLC.SymasSQream Technologies
Initial release20142005201720112017
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20180.9.32, January 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
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++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes, in Luanouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 capabilitiesnono

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