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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesopentsdb.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release20172012201120052009
Current release2.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoR packagesno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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