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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iodocs.scylladb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBMActian CorporationScyllaDBSiteWhere
Initial release20171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201320152010
Current release2.011.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen 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++CJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
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.yesnonoyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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