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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#242	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#19	Time Series DBMS

Score	85.33
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	4.70
Rank	#83	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

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

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGNPV_2.0.0/welcome.html

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

docs.timescale.com

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Timescale

Initial release

2017

2010

2017

Current release

2.0

V12

2.6.0, February 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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 (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB , the first open-source relational database...
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Competitive advantages

TimescaleDB is purpose-built to scale and handle time-series data workloads and is...
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Typical application scenarios

Time-series Analytics TimescaleDB boosts the performance of PostgreSQL for time-series...
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Key customers

TransferWise, Maersk, Walmart, Comcast, LaunchDarkly, IBM, NOV, Cisco, Nutanix, Warner...
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Market metrics

With over 12,700 GitHub stars and growing, 1,000,000 active databases, and an active...
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Licensing and pricing models

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