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

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

RDBMS for high security requirements

DBMS 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 storage

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

IBM

relex.ru

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

1990

2009

2018

2001

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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