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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Interbase vs. KairosDB vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

kuzudb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kairosdb.github.io

docs.kuzudb.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Event Store Limited

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

1984

2013

2022

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

0.4.2, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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