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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. H2 vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

McObject

Thomas Mueller

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2001

2005

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

8.2, 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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