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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWidely used in-process key-value storeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally TerarkTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20171994201420161987
Current release2.018.1.40, May 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)ScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoyes
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 storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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