DBMS > Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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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	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

surrealdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

surrealdb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Axibase Corporation

IBM

STS Soft SC

SurrealDB Ltd

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2017

2011

2022

2011

Current release

15585

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.5.0, May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

.Net

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#
Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

none

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Based on Windows Authentication

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