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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2015

1995

2008

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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