Database Development with IBM Hybrid Data Architecture

by Anson Kokkat, product manager for Db2 Event Store
 

Introducing IBM Db2 Event Store Enterprise Edition Open Beta

I was able to attend the Strata Data Conference last week and what I found everywhere was the prevalence of customers trying to get the most out of Spark and Data Science in their data projects.  Every customer is trying to get a handle on the large amounts of information that are streaming into their organization and be able to do analytics on that data as it is coming in.  
 
IBM Db2 Event Store is an in-memory optimized database for event-driven data processing and analysis. It allows for ingest of massive volumes of event-driven data while serving real-time business analytics.  Db2 Event Store is built upon Apache Spark and uses the Apache Parquet data format to seamlessly integrate into an open data stack and prevent vendor lock-in.

Since June, we have had a technical preview of Db2 Event Store Developer Edition available which can be easily downloaded to your Mac, Windows or Linux machine so that you can see and try the basic features of the offering. Now, we are announcing the Open Beta of Db2 Event Store Enterprise Edition which addresses expanded enterprise needs.
 
Here are some of the differences between Developer Edition and Enterprise Edition:
 
Db2 Event Store Developer Edition allows:

• Install onto your Mac, Windows or Linux personal machines to get a taste of the functionality of Event Store
• Ingest up to 100,000 inserts per second, only one node supported
• Ability to query and index up to 100,000 inserts per second on a single node
• Accelerated queries through Spark enhancements and the Db2 Event Store index
• Application development using notebooks, or direct connection to Event Store using its client jar

 
Db2 Event Store Enterprise Edition:

• Installs on an enterprise-grade Linux cluster (3 nodes)
• Data science and machine learning constructs infused into this edition
• Ingest of millions of events per second
• Accelerated queries through Spark enhancements and the Db2 Event Store index
• Application development through a Scala, Python, REST interface using notebooks, or direct connection to Event Store using its client jar
• Capability to write to object storage
• Includes monitoring console with base monitoring capabilities
• Monitoring of the system using an embedded console

I encourage you to go to ibm.biz/eventstore to:

• Read the various blogs that we have written about Db2 Event Store on the Resources Tab or go directly to the blogs page here
• Download the Developer Edition to your Mac, Windows or Linux machine OR test drive the full featured Enterprise Edition Open Beta and let us know your feedback.

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>> Try the FREE Editions today. Click here.

>> Bookmark and visit the IBM Db2 Event Store Community: https://developer.ibm.com/data/db2/eventstore/