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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimescaleDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comkairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGeoSpockMicrosoftTimescale
Initial release2012201320152017
Current release21.2, February 20212.0, September 20191.2.2, November 2018V12.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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