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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Linter vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Linter vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDBMS for high security requirementsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouselinter.rurethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBMrelex.ruThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20141990200920182018
Current release2.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnoyes
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoRole-based access control

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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBLinterRethinkDBSwayDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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