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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB vs. Sqrrl vs. YTsaurus

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storepostgis.netquestdb.iosqrrl.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storepostgis.net/­documentationquestdb.io/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperIBMQuestDB Technology IncAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Yandex
Initial release20172005201420122023
Current release2.03.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL with time-series extensionsnoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access Control Lists
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IBM Db2 Event StorePostGISQuestDBSqrrlYTsaurus
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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