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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Esgyn

IBM

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2017

1984

2010

Current release

2.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V12

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active-active shard replication

Interbase Change Views

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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