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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NuoDB vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2013

2011

2019

Current release

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

MVCC

yes

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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