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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Immudb vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.immudb.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

IBM

Codenotary

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2020

2015

Current release

2.0

1.2.3, April 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like syntax

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

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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