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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#125  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#297  Overall
#134  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#312  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score799.81
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.postgres.global.fujitsu.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.postgres.global.fujitsu.com/­product-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFujitsu LimitedIBMMicrosoft
Initial release201220171989
Current release1.20.3, January 2023Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 16, May 20242.0SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesYes - 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.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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