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

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

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

boilerbay.com

prometheus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

IBM

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2002

2015

2011

Current release

2.0

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

ADO.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 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

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

none

yes

by Federation

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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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