DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LevelDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LevelDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

IBM

Google

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Rocket Software

Initial release

2017

2011

2021

2015

1985

Current release

2.0

1.23, February 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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