DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.featurebase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.featurebase.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

1989

1987

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2022, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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