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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.orggeode.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgeode.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFirebird FoundationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MicrosoftQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200220152009
Current release21.2, February 20215.0.0, January 20241.1, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights per client and object definableyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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