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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaraima.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.raima.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperIBMIBMRaima Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20172000198420152014
Current release2.015, June 20213.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++CErlang
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux infoincluded in applianceAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyesyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationErlanguser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM Db2 Event StoreNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRiak TSSnowflake
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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