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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LevelDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Tarantool

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.18
Rank	#312	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#111	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	2.50
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/google/leveldb

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

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

IBM

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2011

1994

2008

Current release

2.0

1.23, February 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

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

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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