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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. Redis vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. Redis vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRedis  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsPopular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments infoRedis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infoMultiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistenceRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infowith RedisJSON
Graph DBMS infowith RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infowith RediSearch
Time Series DBMS infowith RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#320  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score11.20
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score157.00
Rank#6  Overall
#1  Key-value stores
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score118.16
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaredis.com
redis.io
www.snowflake.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.redis.com/­latest/­index.html
redis.io/­docs
docs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperIBMIBMRedis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo infoDevelopment sponsored by Redis Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20172000200920142000
Current release2.07.2.4, January 20243.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infosource-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++CC
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux infoincluded in applianceBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith RediSearch moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyeswith RediSQL moduleyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)user defined functionsno
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGearsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoAutomatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual shardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infowith Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication infoChained replication is supported
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesthrough RedisGearsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/­docs/­management/­security/­acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/­docs/­management/­security/­encryption
Password-based authentication
Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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