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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Interbase vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Embarcadero

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2017

2005

1984

2020

Current release

2.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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