DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kinetica.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

docs.kinetica.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

IBM

Kinetica

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2012

2021

2014

Current release

2.0

7.1, August 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

No - written data is immutable

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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