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DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sequoiadb

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDataStax 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperDataStaxGeoSpockGoogleIBMSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2011200820172013
Current release6.8, April 20202.0, September 20192.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonousing Google App EngineyesJavaScript
TriggersyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication using PaxosActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - 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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
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Datastax EnterpriseGeoSpockGoogle Cloud DatastoreIBM Db2 Event StoreSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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