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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB vs. Tkrzw

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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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	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

IBM

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

2018

2000

2018

2020

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
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

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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