DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.kinetica.com

www.mysql.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

IBM

InterSystems

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2018

2012

1995

2014

Current release

2.0

2023.3, June 2023

7.1, August 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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