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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.80
Rank	#126	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#312	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

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

Developer

IBM

Mireo

Initial release

2019

2017

2020

Current release

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Active-active shard replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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