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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeSpatial extension of SQLiteA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.scylladb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.scylladb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMScyllaDBAlessandro FurieriTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142013201520081987
Current release2.7.6, April 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linuxserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
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
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes, Luanoyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoin-memory tablesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInfluxDBScyllaDBSpatiaLiteTransbase
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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