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

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

prometheus.io

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

kairosdb.github.io

prometheus.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

IBM

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2017

2013

2015

2004

Current release

2.0

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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