DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

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

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

typedb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Vaticle

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

2010

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

2.0

8.11.4, April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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