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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SurrealDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedMicrosoftIBMSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201020172022
Current release21.2, February 20212.0v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
.NETLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
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.nono
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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EventStoreDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM Db2 Event StoreSurrealDB
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