DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RDF4J vs. ReductStore vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RDF4J vs. ReductStore vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

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

rdf4j.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Google

IBM

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

ReductStore LLC

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2017

2004

2023

2018

Current release

2.0

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++, Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PHP
Python

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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