DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LevelDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LevelDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/google/leveldb

www.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

IBM

InterSystems

Google

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2018

2011

2013

2000

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1.23, February 2021

8.5, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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