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DBMS > Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb vs. Titan

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAxibase CorporationIBMSplice MachineSTS Soft SCAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132017201420112012
Current release155852.03.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.NET Client APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoJavanoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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