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

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	RisingWave  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.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Event Store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 0.64 Rank #238   Overall #110   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.risingwave.com/­database	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
Developer	Event Store Limited	Google	RisingWave Labs	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	2014	2022	1993
Current release	21.2, February 2021	2.1.12, February 2017	1.2, September 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript	Rust
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Docker Linux macOS	Linux Windows
Data scheme		yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	Standard SQL-types and JSON	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 query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods			JDBC PostgreSQL wire protocol	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		JavaScript	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no	UDFs in Python or Java	yes
Triggers		Using read-only observers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none		none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		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
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes using MemoryDB	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		no	Users and Roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	EventStoreDB	Lovefield	RisingWave	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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