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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storekairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperIBMKineticaObjectBox Limited
Initial release2017201320122017
Current release2.01.2.2, November 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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 storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes
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