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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sqlite.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBMQdrantSAP infoformerly SybaseDwayne Richard HippVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142021199220002011
Current release17, July 20153.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustCC#
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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