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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQream DB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperIBMOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerSybase, SAPSQream Technologies
Initial release20172009199919932017
Current release2.03.2.0, December 20221.8.0, 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnorestrictednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangnoyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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