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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2017

2000

2014

2019

Current release

2.0

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP 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++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

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

yes

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