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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of SQLiteAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperIBMEmbarcaderoAlessandro FurieriAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20141984201420082012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 possibleno infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsnonenoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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