IBM solidDB is a relational database server that combines the high performance of in-memory tables with the nearly unlimited capacity of disk-based tables.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| IBM solidDB | 0.5% |
| SQL Server | 11.9% |
| Oracle Database | 11.5% |
| Other | 76.1% |
Pure in-memory databases are fast, but strictly limited by the size of memory. Pure disk-based databases allow nearly unlimited amounts of storage, but their performance is dominated by disk access. Even if the computer has enough memory to store the entire database in memory buffers, database servers that are designed for disk-based tables can be slow because the data structures that are optimal for disk-based tables are far from being optimal for in-memory tables. The solidDB solution is to provide a single hybrid database server that contains two optimized engines inside it:
Both engines coexist inside the same server process, and a single SQL statement can access data from both engines.
IBM solidDB was previously known as solidDB.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.5 | We value SolidDB's extreme speed, memory cache, and high availability for Telco. While support is excellent, its data replication and limited multi-node scalability need improvement, making it unsuitable for distributed cloud systems. |
