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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. MaxDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­spannermaxdb.sap.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997ObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012201719842017
Current release21.2, February 20217.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesno
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
WebDAV
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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