DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2013

2019

2018

2011

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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