DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

origodb.com

rockset.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

origodb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Rockset

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

1989

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

2.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

dynamic typing

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

can be achieved using .NET

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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