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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2002

2010

2011

2012

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.0

V12

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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