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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. TypeDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolIBMCirconus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20002017201720152016
Current release2.0V0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
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
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
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 storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnorights management via user accountsyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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EXASOLIBM Db2 Event StoreIRONdbJaguarDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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