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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

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

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2017

2005

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.0

3.0, March 2022

10 R1, October 2018

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

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

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

MVCC

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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