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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2015

2021

1992

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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