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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperIBMInterSystemsMicrosoftApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142018201520122000
Current release2023.3, June 2023V17.1.1, June 20193.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 possibleyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptActionscript
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 infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infousing Azure authenticationnono
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