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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20172015201319922016
Current release2.0V19.4.0, June 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDno
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 storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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