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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LeanXcale vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

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

www.leanxcale.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

IBM

LeanXcale

Oushu

Initial release

1983

host version

2017

2015

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.0

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

through Apache Derby

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

C
Java
Scala

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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