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DBMS > Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCognitectIBMMicrosoft
Initial release201220172015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersActive-active shard replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Yes - 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.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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