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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.commachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmachbase.com/­dbmsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperIBMBoiler Bay Inc.MachbaseMicrosoftCesbit
Initial release20172002201319922017
Current release2.04.0V8.0, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnoneselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
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 storageyesnoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003simple rights management via user accounts

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