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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Spatial extension of SQLite

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

IBM

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Qdrant

Alessandro Furieri

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2017

1993

2021

2008

2016

Current release

2.0

3.4-12

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Collection-level replication

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

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