DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

SenX

Initial release

2017

2014

2010

2007

2015

Current release

2.0

V12

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

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

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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