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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2005

1994

2013

Current release

2.0

3.4.2, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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