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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comrethinkdb.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperIBMGoogleMachbaseThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Cesbit
Initial release20142014201320092017
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++C
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
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
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnonono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple rights management via user accounts

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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBLovefieldMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxRethinkDBSiriDB
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