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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Immudb vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

IBM

Codenotary

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Initial release

2014

2020

2013

2003

2010

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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