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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storepostgis.netwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storepostgis.net/­documentationdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMTranswarp
Initial release200820172005
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.03.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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