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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Trino

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperCockroach LabsIBMCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Trino Software Foundation
Initial release20152017201720042012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release24.1.0, May 20242.0V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in Luayesyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesdepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API useddepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as welldepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoSQL standard access control
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CockroachDBIBM Db2 Event StoreIRONdbRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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