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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBMBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release2012201720022017
Current release30.0.0, June 20242.04.0V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes, in Lua
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesActive-active shard replicationnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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