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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Rocket Software

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2013

2017

1985

2005

Current release

2.0

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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