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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sadasengine.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2015

2006

2018

Current release

2.0

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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