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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA multi-model DBMS and application serverSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachespark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.intersystems.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBMInterSystemsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142017199720142014
Current release2.02018.1.4, May 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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