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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docskairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogleHypertable Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122017200920132015
Current release21.2, February 20210.9.8.11, March 20161.2.2, November 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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