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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Event Store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Website

www.eventstore.com

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

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

Developer

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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