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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.progress.com/­openedgequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperIBMProgress Software CorporationQuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2014198420141992
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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