DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2012

1992

2000

Current release

2.0

V0.10.20, January 2018

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

via file-system locks

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

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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