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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Event Store	Relational DBMS	Relational 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 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	bigobject.io	www.eventstore.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.bigobject.io	developers.eventstore.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	BigObject, Inc.	Event Store Limited	Google	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2015	2012	2014	1993
Current release		21.2, February 2021	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language			JavaScript
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	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes		yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes		yes	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.	no		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements		SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API			.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages			JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Lua		no	yes
Triggers	no		Using read-only observers	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none		none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none		none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none			Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables		yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no		ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes		yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no		no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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