DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Cloud-based data warehousing service

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Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	2.85
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Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

IBM

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Rocket Software

Initial release

2014

2007

2000

2023

1985

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

Vector, Numeric and String

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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