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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

sql.js.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2012

2011

Current release

2.0

V0.10.20, January 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

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

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

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

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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