DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.mysql.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

1995

2021

2014

2020

Current release

2.0

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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