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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.comprometheus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBMBoiler Bay Inc.Rockset
Initial release2017200220152019
Current release2.04.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysNumeric data onlydynamic typing
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
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)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnoneyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
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-standardnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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