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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#180	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	798.55
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Event Store Limited

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

Current release

21.2, February 2021

12.0, July 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

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