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DBMS > Dolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Informix vs. Ingres vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Informix vs. Ingres vs. SiteWhere

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataWell established RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.actian.com/­ingressitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperDoltHub IncIBMIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Actian CorporationSiteWhere
Initial release2018201719841974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2010
Current release2.014.10.FC5, November 202011.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C, C++ and JavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Active-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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