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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousespark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMApache Software FoundationAlex KashirinTimescaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142014202020171987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 20212.13.0, November 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++CC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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