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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.ioopentsdb.netsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMCirconus LLC.ObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172017201720112001
Current release2.0V0.10.20, January 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIProprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
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
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnono
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IBM Db2 Event StoreIRONdbObjectBoxOpenTSDBSphinx
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