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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Kinetica  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Event Store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 0.66 Rank #234   Overall #107   Relational DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	www.kinetica.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	docs.kinetica.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Event Store Limited	Kinetica	Google	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	2012	2014	1993
Current release	21.2, February 2021	7.1, August 2021	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C, C++	JavaScript
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows
Data scheme		yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	yes	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.		no	no	no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL		SQL-like DML and DDL statements	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods		JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		user defined functions	no	yes
Triggers		yes triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range	Using read-only observers	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes GPU vRAM or System RAM	yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		Access rights for users and roles on table level	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	EventStoreDB	Kinetica	Lovefield	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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