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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRDF store
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualkairosdb.github.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperEsgynIBMBoiler Bay Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20152017200220132004
Current release2.04.01.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersActive-active shard replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
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 infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlno

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