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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBMActian CorporationSiteWhere
Initial release201420171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20132010
Current release2.011.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageYes - 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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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