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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storerockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationIBMRockset
Initial release2014201320172019
Current release155852.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnononoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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