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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. TerarkDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldprometheus.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdprometheus.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperIBMGoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201420152016
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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 possiblenono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnonono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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