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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Enterprise-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 cases

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	6.31
Rank	#57	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.37
Rank	#281	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.postgresql.fastware.com

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.rockset.com

Developer

DataStax

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

IBM

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2011

2017

1989

2019

Current release

6.8, April 2020

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

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)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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