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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SurrealDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comkairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedHypertable Inc.MicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122009201320152022
Current release21.2, February 20210.9.8.11, March 20161.2.2, November 2018V1v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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