DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Tkrzw vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Tkrzw vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Event Store Limited

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

1984

2015

2020

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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