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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceWell established RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperIBMActian CorporationInterSystemsCirconus LLC.Microsoft
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201820172016
Current release11.2, May 20222023.3, June 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 possibleno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyesyes, in LuaTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoyes
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBIngresInterSystems IRISIRONdbMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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