DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2014

1994

2009

2000

Current release

2.0

18.1.40, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

via file-system locks

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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