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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. searchxml vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Industrial-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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.searchxml.net/category/products

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

informationpartners gmbh

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

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 with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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