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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.citusdata.com

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.citusdata.com

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

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2010

2017

2011

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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