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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMObjectBox LimitedSAP, formerly SybaseJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2017201719942019
Current release2.016.1 SPS04, April 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes, 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IBM Db2 Event StoreObjectBoxSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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