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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperIBMPerconainformationpartners gmbhSingleStore Inc.
Initial release201420152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20152013
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 20181.08.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
WindowsLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLJavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Enginenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBPercona Server for MongoDBPostgres-XLsearchxmlSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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