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

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

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS		Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS		Relational DBMS
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Score0.47
Rank#244  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#19  Time Series DBMS
Score933.83
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#237  Overall
#37  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­en/­SSGNPV_2.0.0/­welcome.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftRockset
Initial release201719892019
Current release2.0SQL Server 2019, November 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows		hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typing
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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API		ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)		HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
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		Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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