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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. QuestDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storejsqldb.org (offline)www.monetdb.orgnsdb.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperIBMKonrad von BackstromMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20172018200420172014
Current release2.00.8, December 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava, ScalaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesfunctions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infousing RocksDByesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IBM Db2 Event StoreJSqlDbMonetDBNSDbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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