DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

milvus.io

www.sadasengine.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2016

2019

2006

2014

Current release

2.0

2.4.4, May 2024

8.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

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++

C++, Go

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

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

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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