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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Sadas Engine  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	SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments	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 0.07 Rank #373   Overall #157   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sadasengine.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	www.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Developer	Event Store Limited	Google	SADAS s.r.l.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	2014	2006	1993
Current release	21.2, February 2021	2.1.12, February 2017	8.0
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial free trial version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript	C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	AIX Linux Windows	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 query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods			JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		JavaScript	.Net C C# C++ Groovy Java PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no	no	yes
Triggers		Using read-only observers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	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	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	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 managed by 'Learn by Usage'	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		no	Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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