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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftSiteWhereByteDance, originally TerarkDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172016201020162018
Current release2.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access control

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