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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBMCirconus LLC.STS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162017201720112013
Current release2.1, December 20182.0V0.10.20, January 20184.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C and C++C#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxWindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luanoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneMulti-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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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