DBMS > BigObject vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

swaydb.simer.au

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

typedb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM

Oracle

Simer Plaha

Vaticle

Initial release

2015

2017

2007

2018

2016

Current release

2.0

14.1, August 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
» more

Competitive advantages

TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
» more

Typical application scenarios

Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Mudhakar Srivatsa
11 December 2023, IBM Research

Best cloud databases of 2022
4 October 2022, ITPro

Why a robust data management strategy is essential today | IBM HDM
19 September 2019, Express Computer

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an ‘AI Database’
3 June 2019, Datanami

provided by Google News

Nike achieves scalability and performance with Oracle Coherence & Exadata
20 December 2012, Oracle

Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Virtual Machines major release now available
22 September 2020, azure.microsoft.com

Hazelcast takes on proprietary Oracle in the In-Memory arena
17 June 2014, DatacenterDynamics

Oracle launches Oracle Banking Cloud Services
8 February 2023, The Paypers

Use your Universal Credits with Oracle WebLogic Server for OKE
15 October 2020, Oracle

provided by Google News

Modelling Biomedical Data for a Drug Discovery Knowledge Graph
6 October 2020, Towards Data Science

Building a Biomedical Knowledge Graph
28 June 2021, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Share this page