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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MongoDB vs. QuestDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 frontendSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
Relational DBMS
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
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score421.08
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mongodb.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftMongoDB, IncQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20172005201520092014
Current release2.0V16.0.7, June 2023
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 infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)no
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnoRead-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL InterfaceSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
Python
Actionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyes infoin MongoDB Atlas onlyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolationACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2yes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
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IBM Db2 Event StoreInfobrightMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMongoDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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