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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Spark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
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 18.04 Rank #33   Overall #20   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md		spark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Developer	Event Store Limited	Google	Sybase, SAP	Apache Software Foundation
Initial release	2012	2014	1993	2014
Current release	21.2, February 2021	2.1.12, February 2017		3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript		Scala
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows	Linux OS X 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	no
SQL Support of SQL		SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methods			.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages		JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP	Java Python R Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no	yes	no
Triggers		Using read-only observers	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	none	yes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system			Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	ACID	no
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	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control		no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	EventStoreDB	Lovefield	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Spark SQL
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