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

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

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Well established RDBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

kairosdb.github.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

IBM

Actian Corporation

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2010

2014

Current release

2.0

11.2, May 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

MVCC

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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