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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfinityDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfinityDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseboilerbay.comspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBMBoiler Bay Inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2014200220142014
Current release4.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaJava
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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