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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedIBMinformationpartners gmbhSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201720152022
Current release21.2, February 20212.01.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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