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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kingbase vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kingbase vs. SingleStore

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release2010201719992013
Current release2.0V8.0, August 20218.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C and JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutableyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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