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DBMS > BaseX vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. KairosDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignite.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekairosdb.github.io
DeveloperBaseX GmbHIBMApache Software FoundationEmbarcadero
Initial release20072017201519842013
Current release10.7, August 20232.0Apache Ignite 2.6InterBase 2020, December 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, Java, .NetCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationyes (replicated cache)Interbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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