DBMS > Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

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

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Chris Davis

IBM

Kyligence, Inc.

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2006

2017

2016

1980

1992

Current release

2.0

23c, September 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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 capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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