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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBMActian CorporationInterSystemsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201820092010
Current release2.011.2, May 20222023.3, June 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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