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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. Interbase vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2012

1984

2013

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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