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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VoltDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable 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)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsterminusdb.comvelocitydb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperIBMinformationpartners gmbhDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB IncVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142015201820112010
Current release1.011.0.0, January 20237.x11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustC#Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinuxAny that supports .NETLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)noyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.NetJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Python
.NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoon the application serveryesnoJava
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 integrityyesnoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access controlBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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