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DBMS > FatDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudIBMBoiler Bay Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201720022022
Current release2.04.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#C and C++JavaRust
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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