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

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogleEmbarcaderoMicrosoft
Initial release20122017198420132015
Current release21.2, February 2021InterBase 2020, December 20191.2.2, November 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesnono
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding 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.Interbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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 integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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