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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

www.mysql.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Axibase Corporation

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2017

1995

2015

Current release

15585

2.0

9.0.0, July 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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