DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. openGemini vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. openGemini vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.opengemini.org/guide

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Huawei and openGemini community

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2014

2022

2007

2009

Current release

2.0

1.1, July 2023

14.1, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Administrators and common users accounts

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes, using Riak Security

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