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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftOracleTransaction Software GmbHVaticle
Initial release20171992201119872016
Current release2.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201924.1, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)yesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cachenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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