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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. SQLite vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. SQLite vs. Tkrzw

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA 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 simplicityWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sqlite.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperIBMInterSystemsCirconus LLC.Dwayne Richard HippMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20142018201720002020
Current release2023.3, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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 possibleyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.yesyesnoyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnonono
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInterSystems IRISIRONdbSQLiteTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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