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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

objectbox.io

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

IBM

ObjectBox Limited

Percona

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2008

2000

Current release

2.0

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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