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

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.orgterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBMFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard HippDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142013200020182011
Current release9.2.1, May 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 202411.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lessLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnonoyesno
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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