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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Qdrant vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Qdrant vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftQdrantThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20142012202120092018
Current release2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageRustC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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 indexesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Collection-level replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesKey-based authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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