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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Interbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Embarcadero

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

1984

1993

Current release

21.2, February 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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