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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphhbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMSTS Soft SCOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162008201720111998
Current release2.1, December 20182.3.4, January 20212.04.0.8, September 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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