DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2014

1989

2012

1994

Current release

21.2, February 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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