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DBMS > Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.splunk.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHypertable Inc.IBMSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009201720032013
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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