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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2000

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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