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

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release2017201520092018
Current release2.0V12.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP 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 infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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