DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.immudb.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

IBM

Codenotary

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2020

1989

2013

1992

Current release

2.0

1.2.3, April 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java, SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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