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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MariaDB vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Cloud-based data warehousing service

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

splicemachine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

IBM

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Splice Machine

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2014

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

2018

Current release

2.0

11.3.2, February 2024

3.1, March 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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