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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trafodion

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comboilerbay.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servertrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2012200219892014
Current release21.2, February 20214.0SQL Server 2022, November 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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