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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

machbase.com

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

typedb.com

Technical documentation

Developer

IBM

Machbase

SAP

Vaticle

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

2010

2016

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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