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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance Time Series DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbkx.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storekairosdb.github.iocode.kx.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBMKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201720132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032018
Current release2.01.2.2, November 20183.6, May 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaqProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlrights management via user accountsRole-based access control
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BigchainDBIBM Db2 Event StoreKairosDBKdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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