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

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Axibase Corporation

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2017

1994

2011

Current release

15585

2.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

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
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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