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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. atoti vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.atoti.io

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ActiveViam

Hazelcast

IBM

Initial release

2018

2008

2017

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

GBase 8a

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

Replicated Map

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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