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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMCirconus LLC.PerconaSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014201720152001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in LuaJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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