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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. SAP IQ vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmltrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMAlachisoftSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172005199420142019
Current release2.05.3.3, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 20192.3.0, February 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes, via HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACIDACID
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 storageyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM Db2 Event StoreNCacheSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTrafodionXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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