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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kingbase.com.cn

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

IBM

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

1999

2015

1994

Current release

2.0

V8.0, August 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

by Federation

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

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