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DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. NuoDB vs. RRDtool

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NameIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9doc.nuodb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperIBMIBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Tobias Oetiker
Initial release1983 infohost version2017199120131999
Current release12.1, October 20162.05.71.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree version is availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Linux
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesNumeric data only
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.noyesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
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
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Active-active shard replicationyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMVCCyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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