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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlterminusdb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBMGoogleSAP, formerly SybaseDataChemist Ltd.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20172014199420182017
Current release2.02.1.12, February 201716.1 SPS04, April 201911.0.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerGraph PartitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnoneSAP/Sybase Replication ServerJournaling StreamsBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
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 Databaseyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes
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IBM Db2 Event StoreLovefieldSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYugabyteDB
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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