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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

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

www.sqlite.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

IBM

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2011

1992

2000

1998

Current release

23.3, December 2023

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

PL/SQL

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

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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