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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime 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
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldprometheus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdprometheus.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBMGoogleSAP, formerly SybaseSiteWhere
Initial release20172014201519942010
Current release2.02.1.12, February 201716.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnoneyes infoby FederationSAP/Sybase Replication Serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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