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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Kinetica vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Kinetica vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.kinetica.comrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.KineticaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20172005201220092018
Current release2.07.1, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC, C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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