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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#313  Overall
#140  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.snowflake.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperIBMSAP infoformerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release20142013199220141999
Current release1.2.2, November 201817, July 20155.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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