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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Interbase vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RRDtool

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

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedEmbarcaderoMicrosoftTobias Oetiker
Initial release20121984201320151999
Current release21.2, February 2021InterBase 2020, December 20191.2.2, November 2018V11.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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