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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. PlanetScale

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.23
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score21.47
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#257  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score16.99
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.00
Rank#183  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orgplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPlanetScale
Initial release20142013201220032020
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.1, August 20211.6.29, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC, C++CGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnouser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInfluxDBKineticaMemcachedPlanetScale
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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