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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationrealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly SybaseDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142014199220002022
Current release17, July 20153.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCRust
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes 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.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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