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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NSDb vs. openGemini vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

nsdb.io

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengemini.org/guide

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

IBM

Huawei and openGemini community

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2017

2022

1992

Current release

1.1, July 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

all fields are automatically indexed

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
WebSocket

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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