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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#311  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score21.50
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncIBM
Initial release201820172013
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.02.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
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