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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2014

2020

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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