DBMS > Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LokiJS vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LokiJS vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.esgyn.cn

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Esgyn

IBM

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2015

2017

2014

2020

Current release

15585

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active-active shard replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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