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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

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

boilerbay.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2002

1994

2019

Current release

2.0

4.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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