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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Databricks vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDatabricksIBMSAP, formerly SybaseJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132013201719942019
Current release155852.016.1 SPS04, April 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesActive-active shard replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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