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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 simplicityRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperIBMCirconus LLC.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2017201720152014
Current release2.0V0.10.20, January 20183.0.0, September 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++ErlangScala
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesnonorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
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 infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in LuaErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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