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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Event Store Limited

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

1984

2010

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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