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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmachbase.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperIBMMachbaseDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20142013201320031994
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V8.0, August 20231.6.27, May 202418.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoCCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnono
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 possiblenonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnononono
Triggersyesnononoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnonoyes
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 infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInfluxDBMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxMemcachedOracle Berkeley DB
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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