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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector 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
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.nuodb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperIBMGoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142014201320191992
Current release2.1.12, February 201717, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 possiblenononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnoJava, SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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