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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

Document store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

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

www.splunk.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

1994

2003

2019

Current release

2.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 for users and roles

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