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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

IBM

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2000

Current release

21.2, February 2021

12.1, October 2016

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

included in appliance

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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